Embodiment Via Body Parts
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Embodiment Via Body Parts
Author: Zouheir A. Maalej
language: en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date: 2011
This volume is based on the theme session titled 'Embodiment via Body Parts', organized by Zouheir Maalej, Farzad Sharifian, and Ning Yu at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference held in Krakow, Poland, in July 2007.
Embodiment via Body Parts
Author: Zouheir A. Maalej
language: en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date: 2011-08-18
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.
Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage
Introduction / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- Linguistic embodiment in linguistic experience : a corpus-based study / Ning Yu -- Polysemic chains, body parts and embodiment / Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk -- Body part terms as a linguistic topic and the relevance of body-parts as tools / Helma Pasch -- Towards a semantic lexicon of body part terms / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- Body part terms in musical discourse / Sanja Kiš Žuvela -- 'Body' and the relationship between verb and participants / Zygmunt Frajzyngier -- On the grammatical uses of the 'head' in Wolof : from reflexivity to intensifying uses / Stéphane Robert -- Multifaceted body parts in Murui : a case study from Northwest Amazonia / Katarzyna I. Wojtylak -- The metonymic folk model of language in Turkish / Melike Baş -- Keeping an eye on body parts : cultural conceptualizations of the 'eye' in Hungarian / Judit Baranyiné Kóczy -- The conceptualization of ido 'eye' in Hausa / Ahmadu Shehu -- Conceptualisations of entrails in English and Polish / Małgorzata Waśniewska -- Cultural conceptualisations of nawsk 'belly/stomach' in Kurdish / Vahede Nosrati.