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The Rigveda, the cognitive linguistics and the oral poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2004

JOANNA JUREWICZ
JOANNA JUREWICZ
Affiliation:
Department of South Asia, Oriental Institute, Warsaw University, Warsaw Poland. E-mail: j.jurewicz@uw.edu.pl
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Extract

My aim is to show how the principal notions of cognitive linguistics, namely metaphor and metonymy are helpful in the analysis of the ancient Indian poetical text, the Rigveda. Their use enables us to reconstruct aspects of thinking of the Rigvedic poets and to explain some obscure metaphors. The basic way of conceptualization of desire in the Rigveda is presented.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 605 - 613
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2004

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