Embodiment Via Body Parts: Studies from Various Languages and Cultures

Maalej, Zouhair (Editor)/ Yu, Ning (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9027223858 / ISBN 13: 9789027223852

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2011

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258 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Embodiment Via Body Parts: Studies from Various Languages and Cultures
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027223858
• ISBN 13: 9789027223852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.52 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.