Exploring Cross-Cultural Models of Love
摘要
Our paper is part of a larger research project on cross-cultural analyses of emotions. It focuses on a comparison between the concepts of love in English and its Polish equivalent miłość as well as love cluster emotions as they are used in both languages. We also include the “love-hate” relationship in analyses of love typology, which allow for a more nuanced understanding of complex emotional dynamics, acknowledging the coexistence of both positive and negative feelings within love experiences. Analyses were performed with the use of the GRID instrument, online emotions sorting task, and the British National Corpus and National Corpus of Polish language materials, particularly with reference to collocational patterns in both languages. Reference to figurative language, mainly metaphor and metonymy, is also discussed. In the conclusions we propose a typology of love emotion models in both cultures and observe differences in the dimension of novelty as well as the clustering structure in Polish and British English love, which can be considered to be associated with a more collectivistic versus individualistic profile in these respective cultures.