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istence of a particular metaphor, we still found that the fluid meta-
phor in these languages covers diff erent aspects of the emotion, and
that the Icelandic reiði is exclusively associated with the fluid meta-
phor as compared with the English anger.
5 Conclusion
This article investigated the conceptual metaphors of reiði. It has
been found that many languages have the metaphor anger is a hot
fluid in a container, the Icelandic version of which is reiði er heit-
ur vökvi í íláti. Although many cross-linguistic studies have been
conducted on this issue, they have mostly discussed the existence/
non-existence of particular metaphors rather than focusing much on
their centrality.
Therefore, this study focused on determining the centrality of the
metaphors by using the MI score, following two criteria: a metaphori-
cal collocate with a higher score is more central to the emotion, and
metaphors that contain more signifi cant collocates are regarded as
more central to the emotion.
The MI score method extracted 13 signifi cant metaphorical collo-
cates of reiði, with the verb ólga topping the list. All signifi cant meta-
phorical collocates were then categorized into diff erent meta phors.
As a result, the fluid metaphor contained as many as 8 signifi cant col-
locates, while the fire metaphor and the animal metaphor had only
one signifi cant collocate each. These results indicate that the fluid
metaphor is central to reiði. Furthermore, we found that the Iceland-
ic reiði and the English anger are somewhat diff erent at a detailed
level. First, the Icelandic version of the fluid metaphor does not focus
as much on the aspects of Increasing Anger, or Att empt at Control.
Second, while the English anger is strongly associated with diff er-
ent metaphors, such as the fire metaphor and the animal metaphor,
reiði is almost exclusively associated with the fluid metaphor.
By using the MI score in this way, it is possible to describe similari-
ties and diff erences at a detailed level even between closely related
languages such as Icelandic and English.
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