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Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society
Edited by Hans-Georg Wolf, Denisa Latić and Anna Finzel
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 14] 2021
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Cultural conceptualizations of xejâlat and kamruyi

Two sharm-related emotion categories in Persian

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This chapter studies two sharm-related emotion categories, xejâlat and kamruyi, in Persian from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics (Sharifian, 2011, 2017). Drawing on various sources of data, namely reflective and narrative questionnaires (N = 150), dictionaries and encyclopedias, and online data, the present study applies analytical and theoretical tools of Cultural Linguistics to delve into cultural conceptualizations, including cultural metaphors and schemas of xejâlat and kamruyi. Data analysis reveals that xejâlat, being an internal and a more self-oriented emotion category can be experienced and evaluated positively and negatively, while kamruyi is considered to be a negative emotion and a negatively evaluated personality trait.

Keywords: xejâlat, kamruyi, sharm, Cultural Linguistics, cultural conceptualizations, cultural schemas, cultural categories, cultural metaphors
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Cultural linguistics
  • 3.Cultural Linguistics and emotion research
  • 4.Data and methodology
  • 5.Results
    • 5.1 Xejâlat as an emotion category
    • 5.2Cultural metaphors
      • 5.2.1 xejâlat is heat
      • 5.2.2 xejalât/kamruyi is a person
      • 5.2.3 kamruyi is a substance in a container
    • 5.3 ru-dar-bâyesti as a shame-related cultural schema
    • 5.4 âberu as a shame-related cultural schema
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 8 September 2021
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