Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

The 'Heart'
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-52303-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

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

The book explores the conceptualization of the ‘heart’ as it is represented in 19 languages, ranging from broadly studied to endangered ones. Being one of the most extensively utilised body part name for figurative usages, it lends itself to rich polysemy and a wide array of metaphorical and metonymical meanings. The present book offers a rich selection of papers which observe the lexeme ‘heart’ from diverse perspectives, employing primarily the frameworks of cognitive and cultural linguistics as well as formal methodologies of lexicology and morphology. The findings are unique and novel contributions to the research of body-part semantics, embodied cognition and metaphor analysis, and in general, the investigation of the interconnectedness of language, culture, cognition and perception about the human body.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Baranyiné Kóczy, Judit

Sipocz, Katalin

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Tables

List of Figures

Abbreviations of languages

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Cultural Conceptualizations of the Heart across Languages and Cultures

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Katalin Sipocz

Part 1 Cognitive Linguistic and Cultural Linguistic Approaches

1 Heart in the Kazakh Language

Saule Abdramanova

2 More Than Emotions: Cultural Conceptualizations of szív ‘Heart’ in Hungarian

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

3 The Conceptualization of the Finnish sydän ‘Heart’

Bernadett Bíró and Anna Orava

4 Conceptual Metaphor Appearances in Near-synonymous Words: A Corpus-Based Examination on kalp and yürek ‘Heart’ in Turkish

Ayse Eda Gündogdu

5 Polish serce ‘Heart’: Usage Patterns and Cultural Conceptualizations

Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

6 The Role of Heart in the Conceptualization of Emotions in Udmurt

Rebeka Kubitsch

7 Culturally Embodied Conceptualizations of the Heart, with Special Reference to Tunisian Arabic

Zouheir Maalej

8 On the Linguistic Expressions of dil ‘Heart’ in Kurdish

Vahede Nosrati

9 Conceptualising the Heart in Yorùbá Cultural Contexts

Akin Odebunmi

10 The Sanctity of English ‘Heart’

Keslie Pattillo

11 My Heart Is Dancing with Joy: Cultural Conceptualisations of the Heart in Serbian

Diana Prodanovic Stankic

12 The Conceptualizations and Semantic Extensions of ?ernde ‘Heart’ in Fulfulde

Ahmadu Shehu

13 The Conceptualization of Mansi sim ‘Heart’

Katalin Sipocz

14 The Heart in Buryat

Sándor Szeverényi and Bayarma Khabtagaeva

Part 2 Lexicographic and Other Formal Approaches

15 Argentina, Eat Your Cows out! Lexical Substitution in English and Japanese Heart Idioms

Carey Benom

16 Heart in Ainu

José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente

17 Psycho-Collocations with Ini ‘Heart’ in Teposcolula Mixtec

Lena Weissmann

18 Cor(Ação) Chained by Metonymy

Aleksandra Wilkos

19 The ‘Heart’ Is the Mind: the ‘Heart’-‘Mind’ Interaction in Chinese

Yi Tie and Yongxian Luo

Index of Languages

Über Autor(innen)

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary. Her research focuses on language, conceptualisation, and culture within the framework of cognitive semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Cultural Linguistics. She studies embodiment via body-parts, embodied cultural metaphors, folk cultural metaphors and corpus linguistics. She is the author of Nature, Metaphor, Culture: Cultural Conceptualizations in Hungarian Folksongs (Springer, 2018).

Katalin Sipocz is the head of the Finno-Ugric Department at the University of Szeged, where she teaches Finno-Ugric Linguistics. Her Ph.D. dissertation dealt with body part terms in Uralic languages. Currently, her research mainly focuses on Ob-Ugric languages (West-Siberia), in particular Mansi. After conducting fieldwork, she has published a monograph about Mansi color terms, and recently she has investigated several aspects of Mansi syntax (negation, transitivity, ditransitivity).