Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Language and Emotion Concepts -- Words and Emotion -- Expression and Description -- Basic Emotion Terms -- Metaphor and Metonymy -- Meaning and Emotion -- The ''Label'' View -- The ''Core Meaning'' View -- The ''Dimensional'' View -- The ''Implicational'' View -- The ''Prototype'' View -- The ''Social-Constructionist'' View -- The ''Embodied Cultural Prototype'' View -- Some Issues in the Study of Emotion Language -- The ''Validity'' Issue -- The Universality of Emotion Prototypes -- The Universality of Conceptual Tools -- Are Emotion Metaphors Unique to the Emotions? -- The Role of Metaphor and Metonymy -- ''Lay Views'' Versus ''Scientific Theories'' -- Subcategorizing Emotions -- 2. Metaphors of Emotion -- Anger Metaphors -- Fear Metaphors -- Happiness Metaphors -- Sadness Metaphors -- Love Metaphors -- Lust Metaphors -- Pride Metaphors -- Shame Metaphors -- Surprise Metaphors -- Conclusion -- 3. Emotion Metaphors -- Source Domains and the Emotions to Which They Apply -- Source Domains That Apply to All Emotion Concepts -- Source Domains That Apply to Most Emotion Concepts -- Source Domains That Apply to Some Emotions -- Source Domains That Apply to One Emotion -- Aspects of Emotion Concepts -- Existence -- Intensity -- Passivity -- Control -- ''Positive-Negative'' Evaluation -- Difficulty -- Desire/Need -- Nonphysical Unity -- Progress -- Harm -- Aspects of Emotion and Wierzbicka's Semantic Universals -- Emotion-Specific Source Domains -- Conclusions -- 4. Events and Emotions -- The Event Structure Metaphor and Emotions -- The Degree of Overlap Between Events and Emotions -- The Subcategorization of Emotion -- Conclusion -- 5. The Force of Emotion -- The Force Schema -- Specific-Level Metaphors Focusing on ''Emotion-Response''.

Metaphors Focusing on Both Parts of the Emotion Schema -- Metaphors Mainly Focusing on the ''Cause of Emotion'' -- Conclusion -- 6. Emotions and Relationships -- The ''Communication'' System -- Experiences as Objects -- The Conduit Metaphor -- Persons as Containers -- The ''Emotion'' System -- The ''State'' Metaphor System -- Friendship as a Possessed Object -- Friendship as a Bond -- Friendship as an Economic Exchange -- The ''Complex Systems'' Metaphor -- Friendship as a Structured Object -- Friendship as a Machine -- Friendship as a Special Implement -- Friendship as a Living Organism -- The ''Positive/Negative Evaluation'' System -- Friendship as a Valuable Commodity -- The ''Event'' System -- The Metaphorical Structure of Emotions and Human Relationships -- Conclusion -- 7. Folk Versus Expert Theories of Emotion -- The Role of Metaphor in Cultural Models -- The Language of Love and Scientific Theories -- Metaphors of Love -- Metonymies of Love -- Related Concepts -- Folk and Expert Theories of Love -- Emotion Concepts as Cognitive Models -- Emotion Concepts and Expert Theories of Emotion -- Prototypical Cognitive Models and Expert Theories -- Metaphors and Expert Theories -- Metonymies and Expert Theories -- Related Concepts and Expert Theories -- The Nature of the Relationship -- Conclusions -- 8. Universality in the Conceptualization of Emotions -- Emotion Language in English and Hungarian -- Folk Understandings of Anger and Its Counterparts in Different Languages and Cultures -- Why the Similarities? -- English -- Hungarian -- Chinese -- Japanese -- Other Languages -- The Structure of the ''Container'' Metaphors -- How Do Roughly the Same Metaphors Emerge for Anger and Its Counterparts? -- Conclusions -- 9. Cultural Variation in the Conceptualization of Emotion -- Cross-Cultural Variation.

Variation in the Content of Prototypical Cultural Models -- Broader Cultural Context -- Range of Conceptual Metaphors -- Elaborations of Conceptual Metaphors -- The Range of Metonymies -- Elaborations of Metonymies -- Metonymy Versus Metaphor -- Within-Culture Variation -- Alternative Cultural Models -- Prototypes Changing Through Time -- Simultaneous Multiple Models -- Metonymy Versus Metaphor -- Conceptual Metonymy -- Alternative Conceptual Metaphors -- Broader Cultural Context -- Conclusion -- 10. Emotion Language -- The New Synthesis with Social Constructionism -- The General Picture of Emotional Meaning -- Content of Emotional Experience -- Scenario Structure -- Culture-Specificity -- Universal Psychobiological Basis -- Feeling States as Culturally Determined -- Prototypes -- Language Focus -- Figurative Language -- Emotion Language and Meaning -- Universality of Emotional Meaning -- Folk Theory Versus Expert Theory -- Returning to Some Issues -- Why Metaphor Matters -- The Force Dynamic System -- The Event Structure Metaphor -- The General Conceptual System -- Emotions and How They Differ from Other Domains -- Some Implications -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Metaphor and Metonymy Index -- Metaphors -- Metonymies.