Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage

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Iwona Kraska-Szlenk | University of Warsaw

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The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization. It explores the relationship between universal embodiment, language-specific cultural models and linguistic usage practices. The chapters of the volume add to the previous research in a novel way. The presentation of original data from previously undescribed languages spoken by small communities in Africa and South America allows to discover unknown aspects of embodiment and to propose new interpretations. Well-known languages are analyzed from a new perspective relying on the benefits of linguistic corpora. Contrastive and theoretically oriented studies help to pinpoint similarities and differences among languages, as well as tendencies in conceptualization patterns and semantic development of the lexis of body part terms. The volume contributes to the field of linguistics, but also to cognitive science, anthropology and cultural studies.

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 12] 2020. vii, 311 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.12

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | pp. vii–7

Introduction

Iwona Kraska-Szlenk | pp. 1–8

Part 1. General and Contrastive Studies

Linguistic embodiment in linguistic experience: A corpus-based study

Ning Yu | pp. 11–30

Polysemic chains, body parts and embodiment

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk | pp. 31–52

Body-part terms as a linguistic topic and the relevance of body-parts as tools

Helma Pasch | pp. 53–75

Towards a semantic lexicon of body part terms

Iwona Kraska-Szlenk | pp. 77–98

Body part terms in musical discourse

Sanja Kiš Žuvela | pp. 99–114

Part 2. Grammaticalization Studies

‘Body’ and the relationship between verb and participants

Zygmunt Frajzyngier | pp. 117–132

On the grammatical uses of the ‘head’ in Wolof: From reflexivity to intensifying uses

Stéphane Robert | pp. 133–168

Multifaceted body parts in Murui: A case study from Northwest Amazonia

Katarzyna I. Wojtylak | pp. 169–192

Part 3. Lexical Case Studies

The metonymic folk model of language in Turkish

Melike Baş | pp. 195–214

Keeping an eye on body parts: Cultural conceptualizations of the ‘eye’ in Hungarian

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy | pp. 215–245

The conceptualization of ido ‘eye’ in Hausa

Ahmadu Shehu | pp. 247–268

Conceptualisations of entrails in English and Polish

Małgorzata Waśniewska | pp. 269–290

Cultural conceptualisations of nawsk ‘belly/stomach’ in Kurdish

Vahede Nosrati | pp. 291–308

Index | p. 309

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