Papers by Baranyiné Kóczy Judit
Cognitive Linguistic Studies
The relationship between visual experience and cognition manifested in the thinking/knowing/under... 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. The paper seeks to understand how the figurative usages of Hungarian vision verbs refer to the cultural values of morality, respect, and hospitality. Three verbs of vision are invesitaged employing Cultural Linguistic and cognitive semantic analyses, namely, néz ‘look/watch’, lát ‘see’, and tekint ‘look/glance’. It is demonstrated that visual perception in Hungarian has a significant role in moral reasoning; however, there are substantial differences in the ways these vision verbs relate to them. To find a motivational explanation for these differences, the semantic properties of the verbs are identified through contrastive analysis and by observing their semantic profiles within the vision sc...
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Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
The paper explores how Hungarian parents of children with a language disorder use emotional deixi... more The paper explores how Hungarian parents of children with a language disorder use emotional deixis to report their child’s condition. Demonstrative pronouns and the metaphorical meaning of space, particularly proximity, are observed in a corpus of six interviews. The questions raised are: a) What entities and relations are typically referenced by emotional deixis? b) What kinds of metaphorical meanings are conveyed by spatial closeness in the use of demonstrative pronouns? Results show that the parents use proximal emotional deixis differently from the usual pattern; instead of expressing their internal direct and positive experience, they employ them to report fundamentally negative experiences of the child’s condition, development, diagnosis or therapy, or other negative experiences. Such application of emotional deixis indicates an intense and vivid experience, namely mental and emotional proximity to negative experiences, which stems from the empathic parental role.
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Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Oct 31, 2023
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The paper explores how Hungarian parents of children with a language disorder use emotional deixi... more The paper explores how Hungarian parents of children with a language disorder use emotional deixis to report their child's condition. Demonstrative pronouns and the metaphorical meaning of space, particularly proximity, are observed in a corpus of six interviews. The questions raised are: a) What entities and relations are typically referenced by emotional deixis? b) What kinds of metaphorical meanings are conveyed by spatial closeness in the use of demonstrative pronouns? Results show that the parents use proximal emotional deixis differently from the usual pattern; instead of expressing their internal direct and positive experience, they employ them to report fundamentally negative experiences of the child's condition, development, diagnosis or therapy, or other negative experiences. Such application of emotional deixis indicates an intense and vivid experience, namely mental and emotional proximity to negative experiences, which stems from the empathic parental role.
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This chapter offers a Cultural Linguistic analysis of the conceptualisations of BEARD and MOUSTAC... more 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 language of proverbs. The study analyses 31 proverbs selected from five collections, where the identification process of cultural conceptualisations involves conceptual analysis combined with drawing on other linguistic evidence and culturally relevant ethnographic data. The results show that the seven target concepts (PERSONALITY, MANLINESS, INDEPENDENCE, PATRIOTISM, AGE, DIGNITY, and WISDOM) are interconnected in the Hungarian cultural model of MAN, and MOUSTACHE has a dominance and more positive value in cultural cognition as compared to BEARD. The study shows how the theoretical framework and methodological tools of Cultural Linguistics can be used in studying the cultural elements of proverbs and how they can enhance the understanding of their linkage to cultural models. Keywords: cultural conceptualisations, facial hair, metaphor, metonymy, proverb
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Body part names are productive sources of metaphoric and metonymic expressions, which constitute ... more Body part names are productive sources of metaphoric and metonymic expressions, which constitute coherent constructions in the languages. These cognitive cultural models are subconsciously known to all cultural community members (D'Andrade 1992). In the paper, I explore how culture influences the conceptualizations of body parts. The theoretical framework is Cultural Linguistics (Sharifian 2017), which investigates cultural conceptualizations in language. The data and analysis presented here consider the uses of 'hand' and 'hair' metaphors and metonymies in Hungarian archaic prayers, which represent a specific subculture mingling elements of the Christian religion with other (pagan or shamanistic) belief systems. The corpus of the study is Erdélyi's collection of 321 archaic prayers (2013 [1976]), from which all representations of 'hand' and 'hair' are selected and conceptually analysed. The results show that 1) the figurative functions of the two body parts partly correspond to metaphors which are also found in secular Hungarian (e .g. Hand for Help, Hand for care, Hand for action); however, in the archaic prayers, they often take form in specific meanings (Hand for Help to get into Heaven, Hand for providence, Hand for control); 2) their figurative uses strongly rely on cultural schemas which are attached to people and events. It is concluded that the body parts under consideration have fundamentally different cultural models in prayers than in secular usage .
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The relationship between visual experience and cognition manifested in the thinking/knowing/under... 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 . The paper seeks to understand how the figurative usages of Hungarian vision verbs refer to the cultural values of morality , respect , and hospitality . Three verbs of vision are invesitaged employing Cultural Linguistic and cognitive semantic analyses, namely, néz ‘look/watch’, lát ‘see’, and tekint ‘look/glance’. It is demonstrated that visual perception in Hungarian has a significant role in moral reasoning; however, there are substantial differences in the ways these vision verbs relate to them. To find a motivational explanation for these differences, the semantic properties of the verbs are identified through contrastive analysis and by observing their semantic profiles within the vision scenario. As a result, a cultural model of each verb is reconstructed. The study gives a refined view on the linkage of sight and cultural values in Hungarian, furthermore, the proposed methodology can be effectively applied to various areas of perception research in a cultural context.
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Special issue on Perception, culture and language, 2023
Contents
Introduction: Perception, culture and language
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Rita Brdar-Szab... more Contents
Introduction: Perception, culture and language
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Rita Brdar-Szabó
Articles
Fruits and plants, grains and seeds, birds, precious metals, and substances, or the conceptualization of colors in Tunisian Arabic
Zouheir Maalej
Metaphorical extensions of the color term kaala ‘black’ in Hindi
Suneeta Mishra
Cultural conceptualizations of sight and cultural values: A contrastive analysis of Hungarian vision verbs
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy
The perspective of the other: A corpus-based analysis of visual perception in Hungarian elegiac poetry
Gábor Simon
Cultural models mediating between visual sensation and semiotic systems, exemplified on visual, alpha-pictorial and verbal-gestural communication
Rita Brdar-Szabó and Mario Brdar
Metaphors from perception and culture: The case of solidity
Ning Yu
Rethinking basic taste terms: A Chinese perspective
Yongxian Luo
Paths of linguistic synesthesia across cultures: A lexical analysis of conventionalized cross-sensory meaning extensions in Europe and Central Asia
Ádám Galac and Daler Zayniev
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John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Sep 15, 2021
A marital name makes a statement about women’s cultural values with respect to their FAMILY schem... 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 motivations behind women’s preference for marital name structures as influenced by the TRADITIONAL FAMILY schema that they maintain in their background. Data for this analysis is extracted from a questionnaire distributed to 533 women, which seek to obtain information on key elements of the traditional cultural schema of FAMILY. Results do not reveal a direct correlation between the selection of marital names and any single component of the traditional FAMILY schema; however, overall the results of the survey outline a systematic correspondence between marital names and women’s conformity or non-conformity to the traditional FAMILY schema. In conclusion, the various marital name structures reflect diverse FAMILY schemas, in particular, they are representatives of Hungarian women’s different extent of adherence to the cultural schema of TRADITIONAL FAMILY. Keywords: cultural conceptualizations, TRADITIONAL FAMILY schema, Fuzzy Signature Model, marital name, name structure
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Cultural linguistics, Nov 4, 2017
The final chapter gives an overview of the research of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Lingui... more The final chapter gives an overview of the research of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective. The main findings of the two issues of cultural metaphors and cultural construal schemas are briefly summarized, giving also some general comments on the notions with an empirical basis. The numerous analyses of folksongs from various perspectives are interconnected by the cultural schema reservedness, which covers a specific attitude to emotions and their expression that derives from the cognition of Hungarian peasantry. The summary highlights that reservedness is a key principle that governs the cultural conceptualizations and their linguistic representations in Hungarian folksongs.
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Cognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts, Mar 23, 2020
The notion of embodiment refers to the bodily basis of human perceptions about the environment, a... 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 target domains, illustrated by the metaphor of UNDERSTANDING/KNOWING IS SEEING, which was considered by Lakoff and Johnson (1980, 1999) and Sweetser (1990) being universally prevalent. This claim was supported by a range of cross-linguistic studies in English (Alm-Arvius 1993, Danesi 1990, Ibarretxe-Antuñano 1999, 2002, Sweetser 1990, Viberg 2008, Yu 2008), but also debated by others (Evans and Wilkins 2000, Sharifian 2011), pointing to the fact that the conceptual links between perceptual modalities and abstract domains are grounded in cultural models (Kövecses 2000, Sharifian, et al. 2008, Yu 2008), hence they can be regarded as cultural conceptualizations (Sharifian 2017). In line with the cross-linguistic research on the metaphorical mappings of vision, the present paper aims at unveiling the conceptualizations of Hungarian szem ‘eye’, in order to test whether the expressions that derive from it primarily represent THE EYE AS THE SEAT OF THINKING/KNOWING/UNDERSTANDING. According to the results, it is argued that beside the conceptualizations of PERCEPTION, EMOTION and INTERPERSONAL POWER, the UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING metaphor is present in the Hungarian expressions, however, conceptualizations of CULTURAL VALUES are also dominant faculties in the Hungarian language. In addition, some expressions such as szemfedél ‘eye-cover’, szemmel verés ‘beating with the eyes’ and szemfényvesztés ‘deception, subtleness’ are based on cultural schemas. The paper further demonstrates that, as part of conceptualization, some spatial orientations attached to the eye may take on certain evaluations, as exemplified in the case of szeme közé ‘into between his eyes’ and its dominantly negative attribution. In this way, the paper is a contribution to prove the interface between body, language and culture.
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Cultural linguistics, Nov 4, 2017
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Within the issue of embodiment (Brenzinger and Kraska-Szlenk 2014, Yu 2009, Maalej and Yu 2011, S... more Within the issue of embodiment (Brenzinger and Kraska-Szlenk 2014, Yu 2009, Maalej and Yu 2011, Sharifian et. al. 2008) this paper investigates how THINKING is conceptualised in Hungarian in relation to HEAD, i.e., as represented in the expressions of fej ‘head’ in the Hungarian National Corpus. It is evidenced that, in accordance with the Western tradition, THE HEAD IS THE SEAT OF INTELLECT/THINKING is a significant conceptualization in Hungarian. Within corpus analysis, two main themes are outlined: metaphorical expressions of THOUGHT and those of the activity of THINKING. It is highlighted that there are numerous different types of conceptualizations in Hungarian to refer to thought, each pointing out some distinctive aspect of thought and thinking. It is evidenced that thought can be imagined as either inanimate or animate objects, and in most conceptualizations THE HEAD-AS-CONTAINER metaphor has an overwhelming influence. Within THOUGHTS AS INANIMATE ENTITIES, the basic metaphors are: THOUGHTS AS ENTITIES IN A DRUG STORE, THOUGHTS AS THREADS, THOUGHTS AS MOVING ENTITIES and THOUGHTS AS NOISE/MUSIC, while in THOUGHTS AS ANIMATE ENTITIES are conceived as HUMANS, ANIMALS or PLANTS. It has been shown that thoughts, ideas, data and memories are imagined as entities that exist (or live) in the head. The second part of the paper focuses on the metaphors of THINKING. Each conceptualizations (THINKING AS CRACKING ONE’S HEAD, THINKING AS A WORKING MACHINE, THINKING AS MARKING A WOODEN BOARD) reflect on different aspects of the intellect. The conceptualizations unfolded can be regarded as cultural conceptualizations (Sharifian 2011, 2017) because they are specific to the cognition of Hungarian people.
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Papers by Baranyiné Kóczy Judit
Introduction: Perception, culture and language
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Rita Brdar-Szabó
Articles
Fruits and plants, grains and seeds, birds, precious metals, and substances, or the conceptualization of colors in Tunisian Arabic
Zouheir Maalej
Metaphorical extensions of the color term kaala ‘black’ in Hindi
Suneeta Mishra
Cultural conceptualizations of sight and cultural values: A contrastive analysis of Hungarian vision verbs
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy
The perspective of the other: A corpus-based analysis of visual perception in Hungarian elegiac poetry
Gábor Simon
Cultural models mediating between visual sensation and semiotic systems, exemplified on visual, alpha-pictorial and verbal-gestural communication
Rita Brdar-Szabó and Mario Brdar
Metaphors from perception and culture: The case of solidity
Ning Yu
Rethinking basic taste terms: A Chinese perspective
Yongxian Luo
Paths of linguistic synesthesia across cultures: A lexical analysis of conventionalized cross-sensory meaning extensions in Europe and Central Asia
Ádám Galac and Daler Zayniev
Introduction: Perception, culture and language
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Rita Brdar-Szabó
Articles
Fruits and plants, grains and seeds, birds, precious metals, and substances, or the conceptualization of colors in Tunisian Arabic
Zouheir Maalej
Metaphorical extensions of the color term kaala ‘black’ in Hindi
Suneeta Mishra
Cultural conceptualizations of sight and cultural values: A contrastive analysis of Hungarian vision verbs
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy
The perspective of the other: A corpus-based analysis of visual perception in Hungarian elegiac poetry
Gábor Simon
Cultural models mediating between visual sensation and semiotic systems, exemplified on visual, alpha-pictorial and verbal-gestural communication
Rita Brdar-Szabó and Mario Brdar
Metaphors from perception and culture: The case of solidity
Ning Yu
Rethinking basic taste terms: A Chinese perspective
Yongxian Luo
Paths of linguistic synesthesia across cultures: A lexical analysis of conventionalized cross-sensory meaning extensions in Europe and Central Asia
Ádám Galac and Daler Zayniev
In line with the cross-linguistic research on the metaphorical mappings of vision, the present chapter aims at unveiling the conceptualizations of Hungarian szem ‘eye’, in order to test whether the expressions that derive from it primarily represent the EYE as the SEAT OF THINKING/KNOWING/UNDERSTANDING. According to the results, it is argued that beside the conceptualizations of PERCEPTION, EMOTION and INTERPERSONAL POWER, the UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING metaphor is present in the Hungarian expressions. However, conceptualizations of the EYE in Hungarian are also connected to CULTURAL VALUES. For example, some expressions such as szemfedél ‘eye-cover’, szemmel verés ‘beating with the eyes’ and szemfényvesztés ‘deception, subtleness’ are based on cultural schemas. The chapter further demonstrates that, as part of conceptualization, some spatial orientations attached to the eye may take on certain evaluations, as exemplified in the case of szeme közé ‘into between his eyes’ and its dominantly negative attribution. In this way, the chapter is a contribution to prove the interface between body, language and culture.
Keywords: body part, cultural conceptualization, cultural schema, eye, Hungarian
The second part of the paper focuses on the metaphors of THINKING. Each conceptualizations (THINKING AS CRACKING ONE’S HEAD, THINKING AS A WORKING MACHINE, THINKING AS MARKING A WOODEN BOARD) reflect on different aspects of the intellect. The conceptualizations unfolded can be regarded as cultural conceptualizations (Sharifian 2011, 2017) because they are specific to the cognition of Hungarian people.