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Abstract
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.
本研究调查了英国英语和土耳其语中祝贺喜事的文化概念,并对其进行了跨文化讨论。使用英语中的祝贺动词和土耳其语中的词典对应词tebrik etmek和kutlamak以及它们的各种词汇形式,在报纸类型的各种语料库中进行了词汇搜索,这些动词不仅报告祝贺行为,而且执行祝贺行为。研究结果表明,祝贺喜事的概念化存在文化差异和相似性。研究发现,土耳其数据中的tebrik etmek和kutlamak事件之间存在细微差异,土耳其tebrik et mek更接近祝贺,尽管祝贺事件相对更受限制。本研究有助于探讨祝贺的社会文化层面,并提供对祝贺喜事的跨文化理解,对外语教育和跨文化交流具有启示意义。
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The Journal of Cognition and Culture provides an interdisciplinary forum for exploring the mental foundations of culture and the cultural foundations of mental life. The primary focus of the journal is on explanations of cultural phenomena in terms of acquisition, representation and transmission involving cognitive capacities without excluding the study of cultural differences. The journal contains articles, commentaries, reports of experiments, and book reviews that emerge out of the inquiries by, and conversations between, scholars in experimental psychology, developmental psychology, social cognition, neuroscience, human evolution, cognitive science of religion, and cognitive anthropology.