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Genetic Secrets of Love Attraction

drkaranda
 25 Jan 202212 Jan 2023

From a biological evolutionary perspective, the genetic similarity must be important for sexual attraction. Intersexual attraction helps sexually dimorphic animals, such as birds and mammals, select a proper mate because they cannot reproduce offspring with anyone. They can do this only with […]

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Love Power Is in the Power of Both Fire and Water

drkaranda
 24 Jan 202228 Dec 2022

The aid of a metaphorical lexicon help us better grasp what love is. Various Western and Eastern languages and cultures have metaphors, metonyms, and related concepts for “fire,” “heat,” and “water” that stand for the core qualities of love (see Karandashev, 2019). […]

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Cultures Across the World Regard Love as Fire

drkaranda
 23 Jan 202228 Dec 2022

A metaphoric lexicon helps us better understand what love is. In many languages, the metaphors, metonyms, and related concepts of “fire” and “heat” represent the strong passion of love (see Karandashev, 2019). The metaphors of “love as fire are among the most […]

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Love Is Hot as Fire: European and North American Cultures

drkaranda
 22 Jan 202227 Dec 2022

Metaphors, metonyms, and related concepts enrich and deepen our understanding and experience of love. Many languages and cultures use various metaphorical expressions of love (Kövecses, 1988; Kövecses,2003). In many European and North American cultures, love is compared to fire, a hot and […]

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Love as a natural force

drkaranda
 21 Jan 202226 Dec 2022

Metaphors, metonyms, and related concepts make our understanding and experience of love richer and deeper. Various metaphorical expressions of love are quite typical across many languages and cultures (Kövecses, 1988, 2003). For instance, the “love” metaphoric lexicon expresses the emotional experience of love […]

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Love Words Across Languages and Cultures

drkaranda
 20 Jan 202212 Feb 2023

Why do people use so many love words? What is the meaning behind all these love words? Love is so diverse in its variety of meanings and connotations, such as attraction and attachment, passion and compassion, intimacy and commitment, that a variety […]

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Body Metaphors of Emotions Across Cultures

drkaranda
 19 Jan 202209 Dec 2022

Subjective experiences of love are widely embodied in various sensations and organs. Therefore, it is not surprising that bodily metaphors and metonymies are common for verbal expressions of emotion and love (see, for example, Kovecses, 1988, 2003). For example, an increase in […]

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Where Do You Feel Your Love?

drkaranda
 16 Jan 202225 Dec 2022

It is commonly assumed that love is evidently inside their body, soul, and mind. The questions remain, however: “Where do you feel and sense your love in your body?” Love is Not Only Butterflies in the Stomach Many people may think about […]

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