Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

The 'Eye'
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-49858-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 752 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bas, Melike

Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Overview of the Volume

Melike Bas and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

Part 1 Crosslinguistic Studies

1 General Patterns in Semantic Expressions of the ‘Eye’

Kelsie Pattillo

2 Investigating Entities “Placed” in the Eye in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Malgorzata Wasniewska

Part 2 Case Studies from Europe

3 The Moral Eye: A Study of Hungarian szem

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

4 A Corpus Study of the Semantic Extensions of the Eye in Turkish

Melike Bas

5 Polish oko ‘Eye’ and Its (Quasi) Diminutive oczko: Semantic Extensions and Usage Patterns

Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

Part 3 Case Studies from Asia

6 Metaphorical Mappings of ‘Eye’ in Chinese

Xiugui Qin and Yongxian Luo

7 Aankhon-aankhon me (‘In between the Eyes’): A Cognitive-Linguistic View of the ‘Eye’ Metaphors in Hindi

Suneeta Mishra

8 A Glance at the Mongolian Eye

Jan Rogala

9 Preliminary Study on ‘Eye’ in the Tibetan Language (with Reference to Literature)

Agata Bareja-Starzynska

Part 4 Case Studies from Africa

10 What Do eyes Mean to a Pullo? Body, Cognition and Cultural Conceptualization

Ahmadu Shehu

11 ‘Jicho kwa jicho’—‘iso ngeso’: A Comparative Study of ‘Eye’ Expressions in Swahili and Zulu

Rosanna Tramutoli

Part 5 Case Studies from America

12 ‘Eye’ in the Zamucoan Languages

Luca Ciucci

13 Semantic Extensions of ‘Eye’ in Deni (Arawá)

Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho

Part 6 Case Studies from Oceania

14 Visual Perception in Doromu-Koki

Robert L. Bradshaw

15 Metaphoric Meaning Extensions and Expressions of ‘Eye(s)’ in Bena Bena

Carola Emkow

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Melike Bas¸ is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Amasya University, Turkey. She received her PhD degree from Hacettepe University in 2015. Her most recent publications include Contemporary Studies in Turkish Semantics (Ed., 2021).

Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Ph.D. (1995), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is Professor at the University of Warsaw. She has recently edited Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage (Benjamins, 2020).