%0 Journal Article
%T Cultural Conceptualizations of shame & dishonor in Early Poetic Arabic (EPA)
%A Pietrzak, Bartosz
%J The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series
%V 2021
%R 10.4467/24506249PJ.21.018.15324
%N 14 (2/2021)
%P 73-94
%K Cultural linguistics, shame, dishonor, Early Poetic Arabic, pre-Islamic Arabic Culture
%@ 2450-2561
%D 2021
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/pjacns/artykul/cultural-conceptualizations-of-shame-dishonor-in-early-poetic-arabic-epa
%X 
	Persisting in a binary relationship with honor, shame was an important element of the pre-Islamic Arabic social evaluation system. In my study, I analyzed the two most important EPA concepts parallel to English shame – ˁayb and ˁār – applying the Cultural Linguistic approach. Based on the analyses on corpus of Early Arabic poetry and Classical Arabic dictionaries, I represented cultural schemata encoding the knowledge shared by pre-Islamic Arabs about those phenomena. The paper presents also metaphoric, metonymic, and image-schematic models, which account for the specifics of associated linguistic frames. Moreover, I posit a hypothesis on the existence of a schema subsuming the honor- and shame-dishonor-related schemata in form of social evaluation of usefulness, which seems to correspond to the historical and linguistic data.