Embodiment via body parts : studies from various languages and cultures / / edited by Zouhair Maalej, Ning Yu

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 258 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 306.44
• Soggetto topico: Language and culture; Human body and language; Language and languages - Variation
• Altri autori: MaalejZouheir A YuNing
• Note generali: This volume is based on the theme session titled 'Embodiment via Body Parts', organized by Zouheir Maalej, Farzad Sharifian, and Ning Yu at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference held in Krakow, Poland, in July 2007.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. European perspectives -- pt. 2. East Asian perspectives -- pt. 3. Middle Eastern and North African perspectives.
• Sommario/riassunto: Research on the "embodiment hypothesis" within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions, mental faculties, character traits, cultural values, and so on in various cultures, as manifested in their respective languages. It brings together some linguistic evidence that sheds light on the embodied nature of human cognition from languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish. The studies in this volume also show how embodiment is mediated in those languages through such cognitive mechanisms as metonymy and metaphor.
• Titolo autorizzato: Embodiment via body parts
• ISBN: 90-272-8513-6; 1-283-23444-0; 9786613234445
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824279103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Human cognitive processing ; ; v. 31.