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In:Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage
Edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 12] 2020
► pp. 269–290

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Conceptualisations of entrails in English and Polish

 | University of Warsaw, Poland
Published online: 23 March 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.12.c12was
Abstract
The paper discusses various conceptualisations of the intestines in the English and Polish language system and examines the surface linguistic expressions that make explicit the position which the body part occupies within the two conceptual systems. The study, by no means exhaustive, is an attempt to analyse the various roles that the guts play in the human experience, explain how these diverse perceptions came to function in our thoughts and language, and demonstrate the parallels that can be drawn between the conceptualisation of the bowels in the two distantly related languages.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Conceptualisations of guts in the English language
    • 2.1.The bowels as the seat of emotions
    • 2.2.Entrails as the location of true feelings and emotions
    • 2.3.The guts are knowledge/ emotions metaphor
    • 2.4.Metonymical and metaphorical extensions
    • 2.5.The figurative association between entrails and courage
    • 2.6.Guts in the process of grammaticalisation and word formation
    • 2.7.Other conceptualisations
  • 3.Conceptualisations of guts in Polish
  • 4.Summary
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
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