6. Rumeli [DİL, EDEBİYAT VE ÇEVİRİ] SEMPOZYUMU
Emotion changes are objects movements metaphors in Kutadgu Bilig
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Özge Eker KAVALÇALAN
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The emotions that result from the central functions of the brain, which include perception and anticipation, are reflections of mental states such as happiness, joy, fear, sadness, and sorrow. In daily life, people can experience a single emotion or multiple emotions at the same time. People express these emotions in various ways in the language universe. Also these expressions are interaction by their cultures. The complex mental and emotional processes, along with their linguistic and cultural expressions, are often handled as event structure metaphors in foreign literature. Various aspects of event structures such as situation, change process, action, cause, purpose and tool are conceptualized as metaphorically in a cognitive sense. Researchers such as Barcelona (2003), Feldman (2006), Yu (2009), Kövecses and Benczes (2010), and Johnson (2018) are accept event structure metaphors as part of cognitive metaphor analysis. Metaphors related to changes in situations are dependent on people’s experiences. Connecting and conceptualizing events in daily life form the basis for these metaphors. These situations contain elaborated cognitive activities in themselves. Metaphors related to change are based on the object’s actions, gains or losses. The concept of emotion in expressions like “gaining emotion” or “losing emotion” is conceptualized as an object that one can gain or lose. Therefore, a person’s change is expressed metaphorically by conceptualizing the abstract nature of emotions in terms of movements in space. Different emotional states in the literary domain are also conceptualized as movements, losses, or gains of an object in everyday life events. In this study, emotions such as happiness, fear, and sadness in Kutadgu Bilig are researched depend on the basic metaphors: EMOTION CHANGES ARE OBJECT MOVEMENTS, EMOTION CHANGES ARE OBJECT GAINS, EMOTION CHANGES ARE OBJECT LOSSES. With this study, a traditional metaphorical concept mapping was revealed by identifying cognitive metaphors in historical texts that express emotions through verbs in a cognitive context.