Study Of The Han Han Emotional Conceptual Metaphor

Emotion is a significant aspect of psychological activities of human, which has close relation with cognition, and therefore the research of emotion helps to analyzing psychological structure and cognitive pattern of human. Although there are difficulties of studying emotion, which is blaming to intangibility and ambiguity of emotion, emotional words and expressions for everyday use could be important tools for exploring conceptual structure and content of emotion. Contrast studies of emotional expressions among different language could also arrive at a conclusion that same emotions of different races have bodily universalities and cultural differences. Therefore, this dissertation attempts to contrast emotional expressions(joy, anger, sad, fear) of Chinese and Korean, which are on the basis of Lakoff's theory of conceptual metaphor and Kovecses's theory of emotional metaphor, and analyzes the similarities and differences, and draw further conclusion that emotion expressions is combination of bodily experience and different culture.The dissertation consists of seven chapters, including introduction and conclusion.Introduction begins with the importance of emotional expressions and necessity of emotional expressions by the angles of cognitive metaphor, illustrates the background and significance of this research, reviews related studies about cognitive linguistics, cognitive metaphor, emotional expressions, and ends with the research methods, subject and frame of this dissertation.Chapter One is theoretical background of this dissertation, with the psychological background, which describes the concept and theory of emotional psychology as its beginning. The second section of this chapter is linguistic background, which interprets cognitive linguistics and the necessity of studying emotional expressions by cognitive linguistic, introduces movements of metaphor study, explains the relationship among emotional expressions, cognitive metaphor and image schema. The third section of this chapter is the basis of the contrast, which describes the similarities and differences of emotion, and mainly analyzes the bodily similarities and cultural differences of emotional metaphors.From Chapter two to Chapter Five are the classification of metaphor on the basis of the collected lingual data, also analyze the similarities and differences of metaphor mechanism of Chinese and Korean. Although different races have the similar reaction and feedback when they are feeling certain emotions, their emotional expressions may use same or different cognitive metaphor patterns. Chapter Two is contrast study of "Body metaphor"; Chapter Three is contrast study of the "Force Metaphor"; Chapter Four is contrast study of the "Sensational Metaphor"; Chapter Five is contrast study of the "Ontological Metaphor" and "Orientational Metaphor".As the summary, Chapter Seven weights the gains and losses of this research, and foresees the follow-up studies.According to the contrast emotional expressions between Chinese and Korean, it can draw the following theoretical conclusion.First, emotional expressions, which seems to be nonobjective, can be explained by cognitive linguistics. Analyzing emotional expressions by using cognitive method is help to consummating the theory of emotion. Second, conceptual metaphor is the primary mechanism of expressing emotional language. Emotion is nonobjective, so when conceptualizes emotional expressions, we need to link abstract emotion with familiar object. In the process of combining subjective and objective, image schema of emotion is gradually formed. And conceptual metaphor runs through the whole process of conceptualization and categorization. Emotional metaphor can be divided into5, which is bodily metaphor, force metaphor, orientational metaphor, ontological metaphor, perception metaphor, and subordinate metaphors of bodily metaphor, force metaphor, perception metaphor are ran through emotional expressions of "joy, anger, sad, fear", and most of emotional expressions belong to these three emotional metaphors. Third, emotional metaphor has bodily universalities and cultural differences, and emotional expressions are the combination of body and culture. According to the theory of evolution, human' emotion is the product of evolution, so physical response of emotion are similar through the races, which is the reason of universalities of emotional expressions. But emotion is not always based on the bodily experiences, various cultural factors and cognitive process is the reason of the variation of emotional expressions.