Hamdi, Sondes
Conceptual metaphors for happiness, love, anger, sadness and pride in english and tunisian arabic
- Centre de publication universitaire,
2018.
The book comprises five chapters. chapter 1 is the introduction. it provides information about the objectives, theoretical framework, and scientific contribution of this study. in chapter 2, an overview of different metaphor theories is provided, and their approaches to metaphor evinced. the main focus of the chapter is on the conceptual metaphor theory as developed by g. lakoff and m. johnson (lakoff & johnson, 1980) and kövecses (2002), which forms the analytical framework for this study. in chapter 3, an overview of previous comparative studies carried out within cmt on emotion metaphors is provided. chapter 4 describes the methodology used for data collection and analysis. the main outcome of the study is given in chapter 5. in this chapter, the conceptual metaphors for love, sadness, anger, pride and happiness in the two languages are described, conceptual metaphors for happiness, love, anger, sadness and pride in english and tunisian arabic: a comparative cognitive study