In:Embodiment via Body Parts: Studies from various languages and cultures
Edited by Zouhair Maalej and Ning Yu
[Human Cognitive Processing 31] 2011
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 18 August 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.31.toc
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Table of contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Embodiment via body parts
Part 1. European perspectives
The relevance of embodiment to lexical and collocational meaning: The case of prosopo ‘face’ in Modern Greek
Dynamic body parts in Estonian figurative descriptions of emotion
Contrasting body parts: Metaphors and metonymies of mouth in Danish, English, and Spanish
head and eye in German and Indonesian figurative uses
Part 2. East Asian perspectives
Speech organs and linguistic activity/function in Chinese
Inner and outer body parts: The case of hara ‘belly’ and koshi ‘lower back’ in Japanese
A cultural-linguistic look at Japanese ‘eye’ expressions
Part 3. Middle Eastern and North African perspectives
Conceptualizations of cheshm ‘eye’ in Persian
Figurative dimensions of 3ayn ‘eye’ in Tunisian Arabic
The apocalypse happens when the feet take the position of the head: Figurative uses of ‘head’ and ‘feet’ in Turkish
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