Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction
1
Part 1.General and Contrastive Studies
9
Linguistic embodiment in linguistic experience: A corpus-based study
11
Polysemic chains, body parts and embodiment
31
Body-part terms as a linguistic topic and the relevance of body-parts as tools
53
Towards a semantic lexicon of body part terms
77
Body part terms in musical discourse
99
Part 2.Grammaticalization Studies
115
‘Body’ and the relationship between verb and participants
117
On the grammatical uses of the ‘head’ in Wolof: From reflexivity to intensifying uses
133
Multifaceted body parts in Murui: A case study from Northwest Amazonia
169
Part 3.Lexical Case Studies
193
The metonymic folk model of language in Turkish
195
Keeping an eye on body parts: Cultural conceptualizations of the ‘eye’ in Hungarian
215
The conceptualization of ido ‘eye’ in Hausa
247
Conceptualisations of entrails in English and Polish
269
Cultural conceptualisations of nawsk ‘belly/stomach’ in Kurdish
291
Index
309
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