Cultural Conceptualization of Congratulatory Happy Events in British English and Turkish: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

This study investigates the cultural conceptualization of congratulatory happy events in British English and Turkish and discusses them cross-culturally. A lexical search was carried out in various corpora from the newspaper genre using the verbs congratulate in English and its dictionary counterpar...

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Autores principales: Can, Hümeyra (Autor) ; Hatipoğlu, Çiler (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Brill 2023
En: Journal of cognition and culture
Año: 2023, Volumen: 23, Número: 3/4, Páginas: 289-309
Otras palabras clave:B congratulating
B British English
B cultural conceptualization
B congratulatory happy events
B Turkish
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Sumario:This study investigates the cultural conceptualization of congratulatory happy events in British English and Turkish and discusses them cross-culturally. A lexical search was carried out in various corpora from the newspaper genre using the verbs congratulate in English and its dictionary counterparts tebrik etmek and kutlamak in Turkish along with their various lexical forms, which not only report the act of congratulating but also perform it. The results of the study showed that there were cultural differences and similarities in the conceptualization of congratulatory happy events. It was found that there were subtle differences between the events of tebrik etmek and kutlamak in the Turkish data and that the Turkish tebrik etmek was closer to congratulating although congratulating events were relatively more restricted. This study contributes to the socio-cultural dimension of congratulating and provides a cross-cultural understanding of congratulatory happy events with implications for foreign language education and intercultural communication.
ISSN:1568-5373
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Journal of cognition and culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12340164