The Heart in Buryat

Sándor Szeverényi; Bayarma Khabtagaeva

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Pages:: 349–365

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004548640_016

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The aim of our paper is to analyse and survey the metaphoric and metonymic use of the Buryat lexeme zürxen ‘heart’. There are no works conducted so far on the conceptualization of emotion via body parts in Buryat. In this pilot work we focus on the figurative use of zürxen ‘heart’, and our aim is to categorize the relevant constructions in the light of cross-linguistic works on heart metaphors. As our results show, the heart plays an important role in the conceptualization of emotions, mainly of sadness and courage, desire and sincerity. The most frequent meanings belong to the domain of courage (and timid—as lack of courage). It shows that the heart is the place of the soul, which can act. The heart is willing, and many metaphoric meanings can be trace back to the soul, willingness and volition. the heart is material is also frequent, regarding its size, temperature and motion. Obviously, the heart is a living organism can be detected as well. In Chinese, the heart is believed to be the central faculty of cognition including emotional and intellectual activities. Buryat is similar to the Chinese system, because not only emotional, but also volitional meanings can be thus expressed.

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Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

The ‘Heart’

Series: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, Volume: 37

Cover Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004548640

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 25 Aug 2023

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