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Więcławska, Edyta and Grzegorz A. Kleparski. 2012. The Politics of Body-part Terminology: On the Conceptual Affiliation of the Lexical Item Face. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 9 (2) : 2–26. 25 pp. URL
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SKASE & PULIB 2012

Abstract

The paper aims at analysing the historical senses of the lexical item face, whether nominal or evoked by face-based phraseological units. Also, the authors examine how far the semantics of face viewed from a diachronic perspective fits into the universal patterns of secondary sense development of other body-part terms. The phraseological data is put in the contrastive perspective and, consequentl, conclusions are drawn as to the existing equivalences in the lexicalisation of parallel sense-threads by phraseological units HEAD-ed by various body-part terms. The cognitively-driven analysis makes reference to, and relies on, such key notions as periphery/core distinction, conceptual category and conceptual domains. (Abstract by the authors)