Body part terms in conceptualization and language usage / / edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020]; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetto topico: Language and culture
• Persona (resp. second.): KraskaIwona
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- Linguistic embodiment in linguistic experience : a corpus-based study / Ning Yu -- Polysemic chains, body parts and embodiment / Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk -- Body part terms as a linguistic topic and the relevance of body-parts as tools / Helma Pasch -- Towards a semantic lexicon of body part terms / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- Body part terms in musical discourse / Sanja Kiš Žuvela -- 'Body' and the relationship between verb and participants / Zygmunt Frajzyngier -- On the grammatical uses of the 'head' in Wolof : from reflexivity to intensifying uses / Stéphane Robert -- Multifaceted body parts in Murui : a case study from Northwest Amazonia / Katarzyna I. Wojtylak -- The metonymic folk model of language in Turkish / Melike Baş -- Keeping an eye on body parts : cultural conceptualizations of the 'eye' in Hungarian / Judit Baranyiné Kóczy -- The conceptualization of ido 'eye' in Hausa / Ahmadu Shehu -- Conceptualisations of entrails in English and Polish / Małgorzata Waśniewska -- Cultural conceptualisations of nawsk 'belly/stomach' in Kurdish / Vahede Nosrati.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Body part terms in conceptualization and language usage
• ISBN: 90-272-6166-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793904903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II