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The Concept of Anger in English and Russian: a Comparative Analysis of Corpus-Based Data and Data Collected from Native Speakers

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Košutić, Matea. (2018). The Concept of Anger in English and Russian: a Comparative Analysis of Corpus-Based Data and Data Collected from Native Speakers. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of English Language and Literature
Department of East Slavic Languages and Literature > Chair of Russian Literature. [mentor Stanojević, Mateusz-Milan and Barčot, Branka].

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Abstract

The relationship between language, mind and culture has been intriguing the minds of linguists, anthropologists, psychologists and other researchers for over a century. In the recent years, extensive research in various linguistic disciplines was conducted on emotions, as they are a prolific field for the research of language and mind. Conceptual metaphor has always had a crucial role in cognitive linguistic research, but recently some light has been shed on the importance of grammar in such studies. Bearing in mind that language consists of both metaphorical and non-metaphorical expressions, this paper presents a semantic-grammatical analysis of the concept of anger in English and in Russian. As the cognitive model of anger for English has been defined, this paper focuses on the cross-cultural variations of the concept of anger in English and in Russian. The study found that English and Russian share a vast majority of event schemas, and that they are somewhat different in the structure of non-participant roles. The main differences were found in the frequencies and elaborations of different event schemas and non-participant roles, as well as in the elaboration of the anger scenario. Russian speakers focus more on non-participant roles than English speakers do, whereas English speakers focus more on event schemas. They emphasize the offending event and loss of control, while Russian speakers more often talk about physiological effects of anger and retribution acts. By the means of semantic-grammatical analysis, the study has shown that a connection between language and the conceptualization of concepts embedded in culture exists. Since emotions are a vast field of research, this study gives only a glance into anger/zlost cross-cultural variety. In order to elaborate the concept of anger/zlost in more detail, future research should include the analysis of the first semantic-grammatical level in corpora and in the language of native speakers, as well as a greater number of examples. Another interesting notion for further research is the interdependence of and the connection between control over anger and the loss of control. To get a greater picture of this complex emotion, more connections need to be made between the linguistic and psychological research. In this light, the given study represents a small part of what should be an extensive, detailed research into the concept of anger/zlost.

Item Type: Diploma Thesis
Uncontrolled Keywords: Key words: anger, cognitive ethnolinguistics, semantic-grammatical analysis, cross-cultural variation, cognitive model, emotion language
Subjects: English language and literature
Slavic languages and literatures > East Slavic languages and literatures - Russian
Departments: Department of English Language and Literature
Department of East Slavic Languages and Literature > Chair of Russian Literature
Supervisor: Stanojević, Mateusz-Milan and Barčot, Branka
Date Deposited: 21 Nov 2018 14:00
Last Modified: 16 Jan 2019 13:15
URI: http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/10640

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