Abstract

The present paper studies the conceptualization of anger by native speakers of English. The conceptual study of emotions has a well known tradition among linguists . When dealing with the study of emotions from a linguistic perspective it is important to differentiate, following Foolen , between the spontaneous expression of an emotion and the description of it. This paper focuses on the latter. Following Kövecses I attempt at showing how some aspects of the folk concept of anger are illustrated in English pop fiction stories by the use of specific linguistic constructs