Guiying Jiang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Guiying Jiang is involved.
2025 The semantics of the polysemic Amharic word fit ‘face’: For a new perspective in the cross-linguistic study of body-part terms Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, Granvik, Anton, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä (eds.), pp. 510–543 | Article
This study examines the figurative conceptualization of the polysemic Amharic word fit ‘face.’ Based primarily on the “lexical approach,” the study shows how the meaning of “face” extends metaphorically and metonymically to such abstract concepts as time, emotions, and the intellect. Most of the… read more
2025 Conceptualisation of mental activities through the body part ləbb ‘heart’ in Amharic Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study applies Conceptual Metaphor Theory to examine how the term ləbb ‘heart’ in Amharic is metaphorically extended to mental activities. By examining the figurative uses of ‘heart’ in fixed expressions from Amharic monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, and utilising the lexical method,… read more
2024 The interface between body and culture in the figurative conceptualization of the “eye” in Amharic Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2, pp. 296–333 | Article
Inspired by the notions of body-based and culturally specific embodiment, this study sheds light on the interface between body and culture in the Amharic conceptualization of ayn ‘eye.’ Applying the “lexical approach”, this paper examines the eye-related metaphors in Amharic monolingual and… read more
2021 Red-hot faces and burnt hearts: A nger is heat metaphor from Amharic and Changana perspective Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:2, pp. 482–516 | Article
People from different languages draw from the knowledge they have from the domain of heat (source domain) and apply it to the domain of anger (target domain) through metaphor. This was also found to be the case with Amharic and Changana. Our study investigates how anger is metaphorically… read more