Nature, Metaphor, Culture

Presents a novel approach to folklore discourses, a neglected field for functional linguistics Offers an in-depth analysis of nearly 250 texts, provided in Hungarian and English Includes numerous illustrations and tables for easy comprehension Provides an overview of the literature, including Hungarian, most of which has been unavailable in English

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy studied English language and literature and Hungarian language and literature at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Piliscsaba. She was a PhD student from 2008 to 2011 at Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, where she joined the Doctoral School of Linguistics and specialised in cognitive linguistics. She obtained her summa cum laude PhD degree in 2014 completing her thesis on A Spatial Semantic Approach to Hungarian Folksongs. At present her main interests of research involve language and culture, cultural conceptualisations, metaphors in culture, spatial semantics, and folklore discourse types, where she applies theoretical issues to empirical, corpus-based study. At present she is a senior lecturer at the Széchenyi István University, Gyor.

Folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective.- Spatial metaphors in the natural imagery.- Cultural metaphors in folksongs.- Cultural schemas of construal.- Cultural conceptualisations of folksongs: cross-cultural and intra-cultural studies.- Conclusions.