This chapter offers a Cultural Linguistic analysis of the conceptualisations of beard and moustache in Hungarian proverbs. While facial hair is an underexploited field in paremiology, the chapter argues that it is an appropriate concept for capturing the cultural aspects of the figurative… read more
The embodiment hypothesis holds that human cognition and mental representations are influenced by the body and its physical interaction with the world. Research on the representation of the human body in language and how it is divided/categorized into parts and subsections is thus vital in… read more
The relationship between visual experience and cognition manifested in the thinking/knowing/understanding is seeing metaphor, is claimed to be the primary vision metaphor in various languages. However, only a few studies considered its extension to less central domains such as cultural values.… read more
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… read more
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… read more
The present paper aims at showing that ‘cognitive reference points’ (CRPs, see Rosch [1975] and Langacker [1999]) have a crucial role in construing the meaning of a significant group of Hungarian folksongs. In line with the dynamic view on construal, according to which conceptualization unfolds… read more