Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The 'Eye' / edited by Melike Baş, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baş, Melike, editor.

Kraska, Iwona, editor.

Series:

Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Typology (Linguistics).

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2022.

Summary:

The volume explores the body part 'eye' as a source domain in conceptualization and a vehicle of embodied cognition. It includes in-depth case studies of languages situated in different cultural contexts in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania. It also provides insights into cross-linguistic comparison of conceptualization patterns and semantic extension of the term 'eye' on various target domains. The contributions in the volume present a range of cultural models associated with the visual organ which take into account socio-cultural factors and language usage practices. The book offers new material and novel analyses within the subject of polysemy of body part terms. It also adds to studies on metaphor, metonymy and cultural conceptualizations within a cognitive linguistic paradigm.

Contents:

The overview of the volume / Melike Bas and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

General patterns in semantic expressions of the 'eye' / Kelsie Pattillo

Investigating entities "placed" in the eye in a cross-linguistic perspective / Malgorzata Wasniewska

The moral eye : a study of Hungarian szem / Judit Baranyine Koczy

A corpus study of the semantic extensions of the eye in Turkish / Melike Bas

Polish oko 'eye' and its (quasi) diminutive oczko : semantic extensions and usage patterns / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

Metaphorical mappings of 'eye' in Chinese / Xiugui Qin and Yongxian Luo

Aankhon-aankhon me ('in between the eyes') : a cognitive-linguistic view of the 'eye' metaphors in Hindi / Suneeta Mishra

A glance at the Mongolian eye / Jan Rogala

Preliminary study on 'eye' in the Tibetan lagnuage (with reference to literature) / Agata Bareja-starzynska

What do eyes mean to a Pullo? Body cognition and cultural conceptualization / Ahmadu Shehu

'Jicho kwa jicho' - 'iso ngeso' : a comparative study of 'eye' expressions in Swahili and Zulu / Rosanna Tramutoli

'Eye' in the Zamucoan languages / Luca Ciucci

Semantic extensions of 'eye' in Deni (Arawá) / Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho

Visual perception in Doromu-Koki / Robert L. Bradshaw

Metaphoric meaning extensions and expressions of 'eye(s)' in Bena Bena / Carola Emkow.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004498594

9004498591

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004498594 DOI