Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

The 'Face'
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52196-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

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

The ‘face’ is the most identifiable feature of the human body, yet the way it is entrenched in language and cognition has not previously been explored cross-linguistically. This comparative volume continues the series on embodied cognition and conceptualization with a focus on the human ‘face’. Each contribution to this volume presents descriptions and analyses of how languages name the ‘face’ and utilize metonymy, metaphor, and polysemy to extend the ‘face’ to overlapping target domains. The contributions include primary and secondary data representing languages originating from around the world. The chapters represent multiple theoretical approaches to describing linguistic embodiment, including cultural, historical, descriptive, and cognitive frameworks. The findings from this diverse set of theoretical approaches and languages contribute to general research in cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics, and onomastics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pattillo, Kelsie

Wasniewska, Malgorzata

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables, Diagrams and Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Kelsie Pattillo and Malgorzata Wasniewska

1 Cross-Linguistic ‘Face’ Expressions and Extensions

Kelsie Pattillo

2 Facts about ‘Face’ That We Ought to Face

Jan Henrik Holst

3 Face in Dene Languages

Conor Snoek

4 The Lexeme ‘Face’ in Languages of Northwestern Papua New Guinea: An Exploratory Study

José Antonio Jódar Sánchez

5 Synonyms of twarz ‘Face’ in Polish from a Cognitive-Linguistic Perspective

Malgorzata Wasniewska

6 The Concept of ‘Face’ in Nineteenth-Century Polish

Magdalena Derwojedowa and Magdalena Zawislawska

7 Constructions with lice (‘Face’) in Croatian: Lexico-Grammar and Cultural Models

Sanja Kiš Žuvela and Jelena Parizoska

8 Framing the Face: The Case of the Italian ‘faccia’

Maria Zaleska and Giacomo Ferrari

9 The Embodiment of Emotions in Turkish Face Constructions

Melike Bas

10 Body Part Extensions with m?t ‘Face’ in Vietnamese

Annika Tjuka

11 The Cultural and Linguistic Conceptualizations of yeeso ‘Face’ in Fulfulde

Ahmadu Shehu

12 The Affordances of ‘Face’ in Dalabon, Gunwinyguan, Non-Paman-Nyungan, Australia

Maïa Ponsonnet

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kelsie Pattillo, Ph.D. (2014), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is a Visiting Scholar and former Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research primarily focuses on both cross-linguistic and diachronic tendencies. She has published numerous chapters and articles on embodiment, among others in Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Eye’ (Bas and Kraska-Szlenk eds., 2022, Brill) and The ‘Head’ (Kraska-Szlenk ed., 2019, Brill) and "On the Borrowability of Body Parts" in the Journal of Language Contact, 14.2 (2021).

Malgorzata Wasniewska is a teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of English Studies in the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses mainly on linguistic techniques of dehumanization in discourse, in the scope of cognitive linguistics. She has published chapters on the topic of embodiment, among others in Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Eye’ (Bas and Kraska-Szlenk, 2022, Brill) and in Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage (Kraska-Szlenk ed., 2020, John Benjamins).