Abstract
This paper focuses on the study of the conceptual metaphor “EMOTION IS WEATHER” in Vietnamese, based on data from dictionaries, literary works, journalistic discourse, and everyday language. Drawing on Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) theory of conceptual metaphor, the paper examines several emotion-related conceptual metaphors with weather as the source domain. The study shows that the conceptual metaphor EMOTION IS WEATHER is formed through four types of mappings: (1) weather patterns corresponding to emotional states, (2) weather characteristics corresponding to emotional qualities, (3) the intensity of weather corresponding to the intensity of emotions, and (4) changes in weather corresponding to changes in emotions. The paper also demonstrates that this metaphor is grounded in bodily experience and sensory interaction with the natural environment, reflecting a mode of thinking and feeling closely linked to agricultural life, tropical climate, and the cultural characteristics of Vietnam.
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