Maalej / Yu Embodiment via Body Parts

Studies from various languages and cultures
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-8513-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 31, 268 Seiten

Reihe: Human Cognitive Processing

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maalej, Zouheir A.

Yu, Ning

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Embodiment via body parts
Zouheir Maalej and Ning Yu
Part 1. European perspectives
The relevance of embodiment to lexical and collocational meaning: The case of prosopo ‘face’ in Modern Greek
Sophia Marmaridou
Dynamic body parts in Estonian figurative descriptions of emotion
Ene Vainik
Contrasting body parts: Metaphors and metonymies of mouth in Danish, English, and Spanish
Uwe Kjær Nissen
Head and eye in German and Indonesian figurative uses
Poppy Siahaan
Part 2. East Asian perspectives
Speech organs and linguistic activity/function in Chinese
Ning Yu
Inner and outer body parts: The case of hara ‘belly’ and koshi ‘lower back’ in Japanese
Tomokazu Nagai and Masako K. Hiraga
A cultural-linguistic look at Japanese ‘eye’ expressions
Debra J. Occhi
Part 3. Middle Eastern and North African perspectives
Conceptualizations of cheshm ‘eye’ in Persian
Farzad Sharifian
Figurative dimensions of 3ayn ‘eye’ in Tunisian Arabic
Zouheir Maalej
The apocalypse happens when the feet take the position of the head: Figurative uses of ‘head’ and ‘feet’ in Turkish
Mustafa Aksan