Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

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Publications - 13

Emotion and Reasoning in Hungarian heart Metaphors

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Publication Name: Language Expressivity and Cognition

Publication Date: 2023-01-01

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 17-35

Description:

No description provided

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

Spatial Metaphors in Reporting Emotions: The use of Emotional Deixis in Interviews with Parents of Children with a Language Disorder

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy Krisztina Zajdó

Publication Name: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature

Publication Date: 2023-01-01

Volume: 47

Issue: 2

Page Range: 47-59

Description:

The paper explores how Hungarian parents of children with a language disorder use emotional deixis to report their child’s condition. Demonstrative pronouns and the metaphorical meaning of space, particularly proximity, are observed in a corpus of six interviews. The questions raised are: a) What entities and relations are typically referenced by emotional deixis? b) What kinds of metaphorical meanings are conveyed by spatial closeness in the use of demonstrative pronouns? Results show that the parents use proximal emotional deixis differently from the usual pattern; instead of expressing their internal direct and positive experience, they employ them to report fundamentally negative experiences of the child’s condition, development, diagnosis or therapy, or other negative experiences. Such application of emotional deixis indicates an intense and vivid experience, namely mental and emotional proximity to negative experiences, which stems from the empathic parental role.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.17951/lsmll.2023.47.2.47-59

Cultural Metaphors in Hungarian Folk Songs as Repositories of Folk Cultural Cognition

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Publication Name: Journal of Cognition and Culture

Publication Date: 2022-01-01

Volume: 22

Issue: 1-2

Page Range: 136-163

Description:

The paper explores the status of nature metaphors in Hungarian folk songs with respect to their representation and transmission of folk culture and worldview. Employing a Cultural Linguistic analysis, metaphors are observed from three perspectives: in relation to cultural schemas, generic-level conceptual metaphors, and experiential motivation. Nature metaphors are to a large extent framed by cultural experience regarding their experiential basis, conceptual structure and relation with other cultural conceptualizations.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12340127

Cultural Conceptualisations of TREE: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Hungarian and Russian Folksongs

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy Júlia Hamsovszki

Publication Name: Second Language Learning and Teaching

Publication Date: 2022-01-01

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 21-49

Description:

One of the key issues of recent linguistic trends is to understand the interaction between language and culture, which can be well observed through the identification of cultural conceptualizations (Sharifian, 2011, 2017). This study explores and compares the basic cultural conceptualizations of tree, a concept which holds a universal symbolic status in human cognition, in Russian and Hungarian folk songs (e.g., Baranyiné Kóczy, 2018b), relying on approximately 800 + 600 texts presented in two Hungarian and Russian corpora of folksongs (Kireevsky, 1986). The study addresses the following questions: How is tree conceptualized in general in folk songs by the Hungarian vs. Russian folk cultural communities? Are specific conceptualizations attached to different tree-types in the two corpora? What similarities and differences of the underlying metaphors can be distinguished in these two systems of cultural conceptualizations? What specific conceptualizations are attached to various tree-species in these corpora? The study utilizes the methodological framework of Cultural Linguistics in that it identifies conceptual metaphors and metonymies in the texts and relates them to underlying cultural models. The research shows that, (a) Russian folk songs tend to employ various tree-types with distinct conceptualizations, whereas tree-species are less dominantly represented in the Hungarian folk songs; (b) the most frequent type of tree is дyб “oak” in Russian whereas rózsafa “rose-tree” in Hungarian; (c) despite some similar generic ideas behind cultural conceptualizations, their representations and the image schemas related to them can be quite different; (d) there are conceptualizations which are only present in either corpus. Overall, it is argued that the figurative uses of trees and parts of trees rely on cultural conceptualizations and are deeply embedded in the cognition of folk cultural communities.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96099-5_2

Correspondences between Hungarian women's marital names and the traditional family schema

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Publication Name: Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts

Publication Date: 2021-01-01

Volume: 14

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 151-183

Description:

A marital name makes a statement about women's cultural values with respect to their family schemas. In Hungary, adopting the husband's full name by marriage is no longer required, thus women have the opportunity to choose from seven different name structures. The paper aims to uncover the motivations behind women's preference for marital name structures as influenced by the traditional family schema that they maintain in their background. Data for this analysis is extracted from a questionnaire distributed to 533 women, which seek to obtain information on key elements of the traditional family schema. Results do not reveal a direct correlation between the selection of marital names and any single component of the traditional family schema; however, overall the results of the survey outline a systematic correspondence between marital names and women's conformity or non-conformity to the traditional family schema. In conclusion, the various marital name structures reflect diverse family schemas, in particular, they are representatives of Hungarian women's different extent of adherence to the traditional family schema.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1075/clscc.14.08koc

Cultural variance in the metaphorical extension of body part names

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Publication Name: Magyar Nyelv

Publication Date: 2021-01-01

Volume: 117

Issue: 3

Page Range: 257-277

Description:

The study examines the cultural embedding of the conceptualization of the human body in a cultural-cognitive linguistic framework. Body parts, organs, body fluids serve as the bases for many metaphorical expressions, which are rooted in physiological experience on the one hand and culturally and historically embedded on the other. The cultural conceptualization of the body can thus be understood as a process at the intersection of physiological experience, cognition, culture, and language. The questions of the study are as follows: (1) What is the role of culture in the figurative (metaphoric or metonymical) use of names of body parts? (2) Which conceptual domains are dominantly utilized in the metaphoric expressions? The paper provides an overview of the main directions of the metaphorical extension of names of body parts through examples from Hungarian and results of research conducted in several other languages. These directions include the domains of EMOTIONS, COGNITION, INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS, CULTURAL VALUES, and issues of spatial representation and grammaticalization.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2021.3.257

Light-blooded, blood-fumed and blood-rich: Cultural conceptualizations of vér 'blood' in Hungarian

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Publication Name: Language Heart and Mind Studies at the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition

Publication Date: 2020-06-29

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 139-160

Description:

One of the key issues of recent linguistic trends is to understand the interface between language, culture and human body. The study of the figurative usage of body part and bodily fluid terms unveils cross-cultural specificities of how they are applied to various aspects of life. Anthropologist Victor Turner considers 'blood' a dominant ritual symbol, which highlights its abundant symbolism in Western and non-Western traditions. Employing a Cultural Linguistic framework, the research proposes the basic cultural conceptualizations of vér 'blood' in the Hungarian language, based on phrases that have been collected from various dictionaries and complemented by data extracted from the Hungarian National Corpus. According to the findings, the underlying conceptualizations include death/fight, kinship, human nature, life force, emotion and intensity, where expressions that convey the meaning of intensity derive from more than one conceptualization. It is further pointed out that numerous phrases are culturally constructed and related to cultural beliefs, events and rites such as blood-brotherhood (vérszerzodés 'blood-contract'), duels (elso vérig 'until first blood'), the Medieval theory of four humours (bovérd 'plentiful-blooded'), or the folk belief related to vampires (vérét szívja 'suck his blood').

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

Keeping an eye on body parts: Cultural conceptualizations of the 'eye' in Hungarian

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Publication Name: Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts

Publication Date: 2020-01-01

Volume: 12

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 215-245

Description:

The notion of embodiment refers to the bodily basis of human perceptions about the environment, and also structures our conceptual system (Gibbs 2005; Johnson 1987). This is most evidently manifested in the conceptualizations of body parts and organs and their metaphorical extension to various target domains, illustrated by the metaphor of understanding/knowing is seeing, which was considered by Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 1999) and Sweetser (1990) being universally prevalent. This claim was supported by a range of cross-linguistic studies in English (Alm-Arvius 1993; Danesi 1990; Ibarretxe-Antuñano 1999, 2002; Sweetser 1990; Viberg 2008; Yu 2008), but also debated by others (Evans and Wilkins 2000; Sharifian 2011), pointing to the fact that the conceptual links between perceptual modalities and abstract domains are grounded in cultural models (Kövecses 2000; Sharifian et al. 2008; Yu 2008), hence they can be regarded as cultural conceptualizations (Sharifian 2017). In line with the cross-linguistic research on the metaphorical mappings of vision, the present chapter aims at unveiling the conceptualizations of Hungarian szem 'eye', in order to test whether the expressions that derive from it primarily represent the eye as the seat of thinking/knowing/understanding. According to the results, it is argued that beside the conceptualizations of perception, emotion and interpersonal power, the understanding is seeing metaphor is present in the Hungarian expressions. However, conceptualizations of the eye in Hungarian are also connected to cultural values. For example, some expressions such as szemfedél 'eye-cover', szemmel verés 'beating with the eyes' and szemfényvesztés 'deception, subtleness' are based on cultural schemas. The chapter further demonstrates that, as part of conceptualization, some spatial orientations attached to the eye may take on certain evaluations, as exemplified in the case of szeme közé 'into between his eyes' and its dominantly negative attribution. In this way, the chapter is a contribution to prove the interface between body, language and culture.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1075/clscc.12.c10koc

From vérszerződés 'blood oath' to vérciki 'bloody awkward': Cultural conceptualization of VÉR 'blood' in Hungarian

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Publication Name: Magyar Nyelvor

Publication Date: 2020-01-01

Volume: 144

Issue: 1

Page Range: 103-122

Description:

Historical, ethnographic, and theological studies witness the diversified symbolism and decisive cultural role of 'blood'. The paper explores the role of the body fluid concerned in conceptualization, from the point of view of cognitive-cultural linguistics. The aim is to unfold the metaphorical and metonymic domains of Hungarian vér 'blood' and the culture-specific factors of world view (beliefs and events) that determine the role of that body fluid in the cultural cognition of the Hungarian community, on the basis of relevant expressions found in standard handbooks and data of the Hungarian National corpus. such factors include death, kinship, human nature, vitality, emotion, intensity, and malediction. The paper depicts conceptualizations of 'blood' and its profiled features in the individual domains in a network.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.38143/NYR.2020.1.103

Kulturális metaforák és sémák a magyar népdalok FOLYÓ-reprezentációiban

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Publication Name: Magyar Nyelv

Publication Date: 2018-01-01

Volume: 114

Issue: 2

Page Range: 156-168

Description:

No description provided

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2018.2.156

Cultural metaphors and schemata in the representation of river in Hungarian folk songs Part 2

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Publication Name: Magyar Nyelv

Publication Date: 2018-01-01

Volume: 114

Issue: 3

Page Range: 320-329

Description:

The aim of this paper is to disentangle the conceptual net lurking behind the appearance of rivers in the context of love in Hungarian folk songs. The theoretical framework of the paper is given by Cultural Linguistics, a branch of cognitive linguistics studying interrelationships of language, culture, and conceptualization. A corpus study of folk songs suggests that one of the main sources of the representation of human feelings is people’s experience of nature, implemented in metaphors concerning the natural environment. It can be stated on the basis of the folk songs studied here that metaphoric reference to rivers can be traced back to the conceptual metaphor eMotionS are watercourSeS appearing in a number of specific metaphors and image schemas deeply rooted in cultural experiences. The representational structure of folk songs is organised by an overall cultural schema, cHaStity, emerging from village dwellers’ strict moral norms. The study shows that natural scenes of folk songs are associated with conceptual metaphors, in particular, emotion-metaphors, but a genuine (and full) explanation can only be given in terms of the notion of love as entertained by traditional Hungarian communities and the related socio-cultural norms and moral principles of those communities.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2018.3.320

Levélszekrény

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy Büky László Forgács Tamás Eőry Vilma Bódi Zoltán Balogh Judit

Publication Name: Magyar Nyelv

Publication Date: 2018-01-01

Volume: 114

Issue: 2

Page Range: 254-255

Description:

No description provided

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.18349/MAGYARNYELV.2018.2.254

What are cultural metaphors?

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

Publication Name: Magyar Nyelvor

Publication Date: 2017-01-01

Volume: 141

Issue: 4

Page Range: 404-425

Description:

One of the central issues in metaphor research is the interrelation of metaphors and cultural experience (Gibbs 2017; Kövecses 2005a, 2015; Sharifian 2011). As part of that research agenda, the notion of cultural metaphor has become one of the major categories of cultural linguistics (Sharifian 2011, to appear). The multidisciplinary theoretical framework interprets cultural metaphors within the set of cultural conceptualisations whose common trait is that they are rooted in a system of values and principles characteristic of a community. The aim of this paper is to outline the notion of cultural metaphor, and present its most important characteristics and dimensions of study in a cultural linguistic framework. First, its close connection is introduced with cultural schemas (including emotional schemas and event schemas) and cultural categories, and then it is argued that individual cultural metaphors cannot be taken to be elaborations of a more generic conceptual metaphor (Kövecses 2005ab). Next, it is discussed how source domains and target domains can be brought to bear on cultural cognition. Finally, metaphor preference (Benczes & Ságvári to appear) is discussed as an instance, broadly construed, of cultural metaphors. It is argued that, albeit cultural metaphors are of a conceptual nature, their conceptual structure is largely determined by cultural experience, hence their analysis primarily targets experiences and suppositions that make them culturally decisive. The theoretical claims of the paper are illustrated by cultural metaphors taken from Hungarian folk songs, along with examples borrowed from the relevant literature (Yu 2017; Yu-Jia 2016).

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available