Surrounded by Bitterness
Image Schemas and Metaphors for Conceptualizing Distress in Classical Hebrew
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
444 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.88 in
- Paperback
- 9781610972246
- Published: January 2012
- Hardcover
- 9781498259668
- Published: January 2012
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How did the ancient Hebrew writers understand their emotional experiences of being in distress? Were their feelings similar to those of an English speaker who feels down, or were there other embodied experiences they used to make sense of physical, social, and emotional distress? This research establishes a cognitive linguistic methodology for addressing these questions, and investigates the use of embodied experiences of VERTICALITY, CONSTRAINT, FORCE, DARKNESS, and BAD TASTE in the conventional language of classical Hebrew lament to understand and reason about situations of distress.