Abstract
The study of emotions is one of the key areas of research in cognitive linguistics from the inception of this branch of linguistics in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One reason for this is that emotion language is characterized by figurative expression, which is also a staple feature of literature in general and poetry in particular. Figurative conceptualization relating to specific emotion concepts was studied in various literary contexts by several cognitive linguists. The studies on figurative conceptualization made it necessary for scholars to rely on and work with attendant cognitive devices and ideas, such as context, prototype, frame, embodiment, image schema, mental space, and so on. In the chapter, I present a flavor of this kind of work on emotion concepts in literature.
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