LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:11 November 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Comparative Analysis of Emotion Conceptual Metaphor in
English and Bangla

Jyotirmoy Patowari, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

The discussion and analysis here will crosscheck the Theory of Conceptual Metaphor by finding out conceptual similarities between emotion metaphors in English and emotion metaphors in Bengali or Bangla. This cross-linguistic study could facilitate us strengthen the idea of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural universality and pervasiveness of conceptual metaphorical language. Even in this different language we can notice the use of same source domain expression to express the intended meaning. Undoubtedly such study will lighten up our understanding of metaphorical mapping in construction other than English and show up in this process the conceptual similarity of Bangla in parallel or contrast with English.

Keywords: Conceptual metaphor, orientational metaphor, emotions, happiness, sadness, Bangla, Lakoff.

Introduction

This study has taken into consideration some non-English expressions from Bangla which belongs to the Indic group of Indo-Aryan (IA) branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Before going into detail it is noteworthy to keep in mind that overall linguistic structures of these two languages are not similar so far as the typological aspects are concerned, they both are also dissimilar in cultural and environmental or ecological scenarios. Apart from these, even in the conceptual choice of domains they vary a lot. In this context, if we begin to find similarities in conceptualisation by deriving the resources from the same source concept (which is ‘body’ here) during metaphor processing, then the similarities in conceptual schema of metaphorical construction would be found as partial as such. But, we know that cross-linguistic metaphor studies have given the source domain of bodily references the first place in priority over other metaphorical domains, because these source domains reflect the “near-universal aspects of the human body” (Kövecses, 2002, p. 165).

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Jyotirmoy Patowari, Ph.D. Scholar
Centre for Linguistics
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi – 110067
Delhi
India
jpatowari.jnu@gmail.com
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