Abstract
Weather conditions are often represented in the imagery of nature. This section explores cultural conceptualizations related to the most frequent phenomenon of weather in love songs, wind, a natural force described mainly by its physical impact on other entities (based on the conceptual metaphor emotion is a natural force ). The analysis unfolds different conceptualizations of wind in correlation with specific properties of wind, including types of motions (such as disposing and fluttering) caused by the natural force. The basic cultural conceptualizations include bringing or creating love, news (gossip), sorrow, separation, freedom, remembrance, and life. It is concluded that they all relate to the underlying cultural metaphor change in life and emotion as movement caused by the wind.
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The spinnery was a common place for social gatherings in winter and spring where they amused themselves by playing games, gossiping, singing folksongs etc. (Viski 1932: 148–161).
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Baranyiné Kóczy, J. (2018). Cultural Metaphors Related to Weather . In: Nature, Metaphor, Culture. Cultural Linguistics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5753-3_6
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