The linguistic conceptualization in folk aesthetics past, present and future

Anna Gladkova*, Jesús Romero-Trillo

*Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    This Special Issue is dedicated to the analysis of the linguistic conceptualization of “beautiful” and “ugly” as the key concepts that are basic to aesthetic appreciation across languages and cultures within the framework of folk aesthetics. For this purpose, we present a collection of original research articles analyzing concepts related to folk aesthetics in seven languages: English, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Danish, Persian, and Mandarin Chinese. All studies in this Special Issue focus on words and concepts as representations of culture-specific ways of aesthetic appreciation. Most of the studies are corpus-based, therefore they draw their conclusions on significant linguistic data.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1-13
    Number of pages13
    JournalInternational Journal of Language and Culture
    Volume8
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 7 Jun 2021

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