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Embodiment via Body Parts
Studies from various languages and cultures
Research on the “embodiment hypothesis” within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions, mental faculties, character traits, cultural values, and so on, in various cultures, as manifested in their respective languages. It brings together some linguistic evidence that sheds light on the embodied nature of human cognition from languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish. The studies in this volume also show how embodiment is mediated in those languages through such cognitive mechanisms as metonymy and metaphor.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 31] 2011. ix, 258 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 August 2011
Published online on 3 August 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- List of contributors | pp. vii–viii
- Acknowledgments | pp. ix–x
- Introduction: Embodiment via body partsZouheir Maalej and Ning Yu | pp. 1–20
- Part 1. European perspectives
- The relevance of embodiment to lexical and collocational meaning: The case of prosopo ‘face’ in Modern GreekSophia Marmaridou | pp. 23–40
- Dynamic body parts in Estonian figurative descriptions of emotionEne Vainik | pp. 41–70
- Contrasting body parts: Metaphors and metonymies of mouth in Danish, English, and SpanishUwe Kjær Nissen | pp. 71–92
- head and eye in German and Indonesian figurative usesPoppy Siahaan | pp. 93–114
- Part 2. East Asian perspectives
- Speech organs and linguistic activity/function in ChineseNing Yu | pp. 117–148
- Inner and outer body parts: The case of hara ‘belly’ and koshi ‘lower back’ in JapaneseTomokazu Nagai and Masako K. Hiraga | pp. 149–170
- A cultural-linguistic look at Japanese ‘eye’ expressionsDebra J. Occhi | pp. 171–194
- Part 3. Middle Eastern and North African perspectives
- Conceptualizations of cheshm ‘eye’ in PersianFarzad Sharifian | pp. 197–212
- Figurative dimensions of 3ayn ‘eye’ in Tunisian ArabicZouheir Maalej | pp. 213–240
- The apocalypse happens when the feet take the position of the head: Figurative uses of ‘head’ and ‘feet’ in TurkishMustafa Aksan | pp. 241–256
- Index | pp. 257–258
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