Abstract
AbstractThis article presents the main results of a corpus-based analysis of the metaphorical expression of emotions in Latin and a new resource specifically designed to facilitate such large-scale study of conceptual metaphors, theLexicon Translaticium Latinum. The first part of the paper provides quantitative and qualitative evidence about the types of metaphors used by Roman writers to express four basic emotions: fear, anger, love, and hate. Our research takes a corpus-based and target-oriented approach, analyzing all occurrences of the main lexemes denoting these emotions in Latin texts dating between the third century BCE and the second century CE. The results demonstrate the highly embodied nature of the metaphors used by Latin authors to make sense of (and express linguistically) their experiences of fear, anger, love, and hate. Moreover, the differences in the usage of the metaphorical patterns across the four semantic fields, in terms of type and frequency, correlate with the different physiological reactions provoked by the four emotions we examined. In the second part of the paper, we present theLexicon Translaticium Latinum, an open-access, digital dictionary of Latin metaphors, currently under development. It facilitates large-scale analyses of highly conventionalized metaphoric patterns that organize meanings throughout Latin, at the same time allowing the kinds of relations that subsist between different types of metaphors to be captured and encoded in machine-readable formats.
Highlights
This work is Keywords: conceptual metaphors; corpus-based approach; digital humanities; embodiment; emotions. This paper1 provides a corpus-based analysis of conceptual metaphors documented in Latin for the expression of four basic emotions, namely fear, anger, love, and hate. It presents the Lexicon Translaticium Latinum, an open-access online dictionary of Latin metaphors, aimed at facilitating inquiries such as the study of emotions we present in this paper
We present the idea of the Lexicon Translaticium Latinum, an online, extensible, open-access dictionary of metaphors resulting from a collaborative international Digital Humanities initiative
We have presented the results of our corpus-based research aimed at shedding light on how the experience of love, hate, anger, and fear are conceptually structured in Latin’s semantic system, and linguistically expressed in metaphorical terms
Summary
This paper provides a corpus-based analysis of conceptual metaphors documented in Latin for the expression of four basic emotions, namely fear, anger, love, and hate It presents the Lexicon Translaticium Latinum, an open-access online dictionary of Latin metaphors, aimed at facilitating inquiries such as the study of emotions we present in this paper. Drawing on a large corpus of literary texts written between the third century BCE and the second century CE, the first part of this paper illustrates the most frequent metaphorical mappings relied upon by Latin authors for the expression of fear, anger, love, and hate It accounts for differences in their semantic categorization, including quantitative aspects relating to their relative frequency. We present the idea (and the prototype) of the Lexicon Translaticium Latinum, an online, extensible, open-access dictionary of metaphors resulting from a collaborative international Digital Humanities initiative.
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