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Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage
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The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization. It explores the relationship between universal embodiment, language-specific cultural models and linguistic usage practices. The chapters of the volume add to the previous research in a novel way. The presentation of original data from previously undescribed languages spoken by small communities in Africa and South America allows to discover unknown aspects of embodiment and to propose new interpretations. Well-known languages are analyzed from a new perspective relying on the benefits of linguistic corpora. Contrastive and theoretically oriented studies help to pinpoint similarities and differences among languages, as well as tendencies in conceptualization patterns and semantic development of the lexis of body part terms. The volume contributes to the field of linguistics, but also to cognitive science, anthropology and cultural studies.
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 12] 2020. vii, 311 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 2 March 2020
Published online on 2 March 2020
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. vii–7
- IntroductionIwona Kraska-Szlenk | pp. 1–8
- Part 1. General and Contrastive Studies
- Linguistic embodiment in linguistic experience: A corpus-based studyNing Yu | pp. 11–30
- Polysemic chains, body parts and embodimentBarbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk | pp. 31–52
- Body-part terms as a linguistic topic and the relevance of body-parts as toolsHelma Pasch | pp. 53–75
- Towards a semantic lexicon of body part termsIwona Kraska-Szlenk | pp. 77–98
- Body part terms in musical discourseSanja Kiš Žuvela | pp. 99–114
- Part 2. Grammaticalization Studies
- ‘Body’ and the relationship between verb and participantsZygmunt Frajzyngier | pp. 117–132
- On the grammatical uses of the ‘head’ in Wolof: From reflexivity to intensifying usesStéphane Robert | pp. 133–168
- Multifaceted body parts in Murui: A case study from Northwest AmazoniaKatarzyna I. Wojtylak | pp. 169–192
- Part 3. Lexical Case Studies
- The metonymic folk model of language in TurkishMelike Baş | pp. 195–214
- Keeping an eye on body parts: Cultural conceptualizations of the ‘eye’ in HungarianJudit Baranyiné Kóczy | pp. 215–245
- The conceptualization of ido ‘eye’ in HausaAhmadu Shehu | pp. 247–268
- Conceptualisations of entrails in English and PolishMałgorzata Waśniewska | pp. 269–290
- Cultural conceptualisations of nawsk ‘belly/stomach’ in KurdishVahede Nosrati | pp. 291–308
- Index | pp. 309–311
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