A Corpus-Based Stylistic Analysis of "Body-Soul" and "Heaviness-Lightness" Metaphors in Kundera's Novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"

Autor/inn/en	Hussein, Khalid Shakir; Ameer, May Ali Abdul
Titel	A Corpus-Based Stylistic Analysis of "Body-Soul" and "Heaviness-Lightness" Metaphors in Kundera's Novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 6 (2015) 5, S.22-39 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Computational Linguistics; Novels; Semantics; Figurative Language; Psycholinguistics; Language Styles; Literary Devices; Creativity; Cognitive Mapping; Concept Formation; Linguistic Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Novel; Roman; Semantik; Psycholinguistik; Sprachstil; Literaturarbeit; Kreativität; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Linguistische Theorie
Abstract	This paper represents an attempt to conduct a corpus-based stylistic analysis of two conceptual metaphors in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," which is a novel written by Milan Kundera. "Soul-body" and "lightness-heaviness" metaphors are foregrounded as being central themes all through the novel. The way such metaphors are used in the novel indicates an insightful employment of metaphor as a cognitive tool which empowers language users with a capacity of conceptualizing different experiences. The researcher adopts "conceptual metaphor theory" to produce a sort of conceptual analysis incorporating Leech's semantic componential analysis within the overall analytic procedure. Different techniques are figured out in relation to the creative ways of manipulating the cognitive level of language, such as "conceptual switching," "conceptual extension," and "conceptual fusion." These creative techniques are carefully used in the novel under investigation with different ranges of metaphorical creativity. Conceptual switching might be simple but very active in deviating from the conventional conceptual system. Conceptual extension marks certain minute elaborations conventional metaphors undergo extending the limits of cognitive conceptualization. As for conceptual fusion, it proves to be interestingly powerful in producing certain aggregations of metaphorical mappings. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01