The body in language : comparative studies of linguistic embodiment /
The Body in Language provides theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication as well as on cognitive linguistics in general. Case studies discuss the embodiment in a wide range of languages and from diverse cultures on various continents.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2014]
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| Series: | Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ;
v. 8. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Notes on Contributors; The Body in Language: An Introduction; Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Patterns of Body Part Terms; The Body in Language: Observations from Grammaticalization; Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Ethiosemitic; Extending Body-Part Terms in the Domain of Emotions; Corporeal Incorporation and Extension in Dene Sųłiné (Athapaskan) Lexicalization; The Cow's Body as the Source Domain of Philosophical Metaphors in the Rg̣veda: The Case of 'Udder' (ū́dhar); Conceptualization of the Body and Self.
- Our Collocating Body Parts: Recurring Images of Self and Other in the Use of English Body-Part TermsNotions of SELF in Hausa; Embodied Languages and Other Modalities; Hausa Metaphors: Gestural Idioms Containing Body-Part Terms; The Up/Down Orientation in Language and Music; Case Studies from Africa; Embodiment in Zande; Body Parts We Live By in Language and Culture: The raaS 'head' and yidd 'hand' in Tunisian Arabic; What Hands/Arms Can Say: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Swahili Body-Part Terms Mkono and Mikono; Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Mundabli.
- Whomever It Concerns-Notions of Control, Initiation and Affectedness in Expressions of Body-Centred Activities in MbembeSexual, Impure, Vulgar: An Analysis of the Intimate Body-Part Terms in Egyptian Arabic; Case Studies from Europe; Selected Body-Part Terms as a Means for Conveying Abstract Concepts in The Economist: The Case of Head, Eye, Mouth and Nose; Semiotic Conceptualization of the Human Body and the Case Study of Russian 'Navel'; Author Index; Language Index; Subject Index.
