Anger in Indonesian: “Awakening a sleeping tiger”

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This chapter investigates the salient metaphoric and metonymic conceptualisations of the concept ANGER in standard Indonesian (Glottocode: indo1316), the official variety of Malay used in the Indonesian archipelago. By combining the lexical (type-based) and corpus linguistic (token-based) approaches, this study reveals the dynamics (i.e., convergence and divergence) in the metaphors and metonymies of ANGER and their degree of salience. Overall, the salience-based analyses offer a different perspective in capturing the prominence of metaphors and metonymies for ANGER by considering the central components of metaphor and metonymy in the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), namely the extent of mappings and the linguistic expressions. Furthermore, the Indonesian prototypical cultural model of ANGER (§7) largely corresponds to the five-stage model proposed in the previous work on ANGER in American English (Lakoff and Kövecses 1987). Finally, this study argues for the different contexts as the motivating factors in the use of several metaphors. These contexts include the geographical and geological landscapes of Indonesia, the deeply rooted socio-cultural and religious beliefs of Indonesian, the conventional metaphors in the memory, and the socio-cultural situatedness of embodiment for the bodily locus of ANGER.

Authors: Rajeg, GPW

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Host title: Metaphors of ANGER across Languages: Universality and Variation Volume 1: From Akan to Italian
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 615-682
• Chapter number: 14
• Series: Comparative Handbook of Linguistics [CHL]
• Publication date: 2024-11-04
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110730999-014
• ISBN-10: 3110730995
• ISBN-13: 9783110730999
• Language: English
• Keywords: anger metonymy; conceptual metonymy; Indonesian; cultural model; metonymy; cognitive linguistics; metaphor; embodiment; quantitative corpus linguistics; prototype; emotion metonymy; metonimi marah bahasa indonesia; cognitive model; corpus linguistics; Indonesian emotion metaphor; emotion metaphor; language arts & disciplines; conceptual metaphor theory; socio-cultural situatedness; anger metaphor in indonesian; metafora marah bahasa indonesia; context of metaphor
• Subtype: Chapter