Habit, or /nísǎj/
A Study of The Conceptual Metaphor in Thai National Corpus based on Cognitive Semantics and Pragmatics
Keywords:
Habit, Metaphor, Conceptual Metaphor, Pragmatics, Cognitive SemanticsAbstract
This article examines the conceptual metaphor of habit, or /nísǎj/ in Thai, using a conceptual metaphor approach, and studies functions. The data were randomly collected from academic works, non-academic works, fiction, newspaper items and miscellany in the Thai National Corpus program of the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. It was found that the metaphorical expressions show the metaphorical concepts such as [HABIT IS AN OBJECT], [HABIT IS A BUILDING], [HABIT IS A PLANT], [HABIT IS A SEWAGE], [HABIT IS A PUZZLE], [HABIT IS A TEXT BOOK], [HABIT IS AN ENEMY] These concepts represent their functions, namely function and ideational function that explain the abstract meanings of the habits to be more concrete in meaning. Another function is an interpersonal function that determines the perspective of habit to convince people to avoid unwanted habits.
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