Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

The 'Head'
Approx. XII, 272 Pp. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39240-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

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

Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Head’ edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk adds to linguistic studies on embodied cognition and conceptualization while focusing on one body part term from a comparative perspective. The ‘head’ is investigated as a source domain for extending multiple concepts in various target domains accessed via metaphor or metonymy. The contributions in the volume provide comparative and case studies based on analyses of the first-hand data from languages representing all continents and diversified linguistic groups, including endangered languages of Africa, Australia and Americas. The book offers new reflections on the relationship between embodiment, cultural situatedness and universal tendencies of semantic change. The findings contribute to general research on metaphor, metonymy, and polysemy within a paradigm of cognitive linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Embodied Lexicon and the ‘Head’
Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

Part 1 Comparative Studies

1 ‘Head(s)’ in Portuguese: the Metaphor in European and Brazilian Portuguese
Aleksandra Wilkos and Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho

2 On the Lexeme ‘Head’ in Zamucoan
Luca Ciucci

3 What the Grammaticalization of ‘Head’ Reveals about the Semantic Structure of a Language?
Zygmunt Frajzyngier

4 ‘Head’ in Some Non-Bantu Languages of the Oriental Province of DR Congo
Helma Pasch

5 “Head” as a Link of Embodiment in Chinese
Yongxian Luo

6 From Head to Toe: How Languages Extend the Head to Name Body Parts
Kelsie Pattillo

7 Metonymic Extensions of the Body Part ‘Head’ in Mental and Social Domains
Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

Part 2 Case Studies

8 The Conceptualization of HEAD among the Hausa Based on Verbal and Nonverbal Representation
Izabela Will

9 Semantics of Amharic ras ‘Head’
Abinet Sime

10 ‘Head’ Idioms in Turkish: Contrasts and Correlations
Filiz Mutlu, Aysel Kapan, Ali Yagiz Sen, Hilal Yildirim-Gündogdu and Asli Göksel

11 ‘He Cracked His Head Feverishly’: Conceptualizations of HEAD and THINKING in Hungarian
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy

12 Semantic Extensions of tatini ‘Her Head’ and tati ‘His Head’ in Deni (Arawá)
Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho

13 Wulaya ‘Head’ in Yanyuwa
Alice Gaby and John Bradley

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Ph.D. (1995), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Head of the Department of African Languages and Cultures at the University of Warsaw. She has published books and articles on phonology-morphology interface, analogy, embodiment and language-culture connection.

Contributors are: Abinet Sime, Judit Baranyiné Kóczy, John Bradley, Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho, Luca Ciucci, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Alice Gaby, Asli Göksel, Aysel Kapan, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Yongxian Luo, Filiz Mutlu, Helma Pasch, Kelsie Pattillo, Ali Yagiz Sen, Aleksandra Wilkos, Izabela Will, Hilal Yildirim-Gündogdu.