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The body in language : comparative studies of linguistic embodiment / edited by Matthias Brenzinger and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; v. 8.
- Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; volume 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Origin.
- Language and languages.
- Semantics--Psychological aspects.
- Semantics.
- Gesture.
- Cognitive grammar.
- Metaphor.
- Metonyms.
- Anthropological linguistics.
- Local Subjects:
- Anthropological linguistics.
- Cognitive grammar.
- Gesture.
- Language and languages--Origin.
- Metaphor.
- Metonyms.
- Semantics--Psychological aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Most of the chapters of the present volume developed from papers presented at the international conference "The Body in Language" held in Warsaw on the 21-22 October 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Isaac Norris Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Body in language.
- ISBN:
- 9789004274297
- 9004274294
- OCLC:
- 893679542
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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