Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage

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Kraska-Szlenk Iwona Kraska-Szlenk(Editor)

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Intro
Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Previous studies on embodiment and body part terms
2. An overview of the volume
References
Part 1. General and Contrastive Studies
Linguistic embodiment in linguistic experience: A corpus-based study
1. Introduction
2. Language and thought in metaphor studies
3. A corpus-based study of Chinese body-part terms for "face" and "heart"
3.1 The Chinese "face"
3.2 The Chinese "heart"
4. Conclusion
References
Polysemic chains, body parts and embodiment
1. Perceptual and action-based grounding of cognition
2. Intralingual and interlingual polysemic displacement and meaning reconceptualization
3. Metonymy
4. Metonymic grammaticalization displacement chains
5. Metaphoricity - polysemous extensions into other domains
5.1. Bi-directionality of body part names polysemies
5.1. Metaphtonymy
5.2. Complex blended portmanteau forms
6. Interlinguistic conceptual displacement
7. Cultural conceptualizations and re-conceptualizations
8. Typology of polysemic embodied extension basis
9. Body schema and the Embodiment Hypothesis
References
Internet sources
Body-part terms as a linguistic topic and the relevance of body-parts as tools
1. Introduction
2. Origins and structures of simplex body-part terms
2.1. 'Borrowed, derived and metaphorical terms for body-parts'
2.2. 'Compound body-part terms'
2.3. 'Derivations denoting body-parts'
3. Body-parts of objects
4. Body-parts with tool-functions
5. Conclusion
References
Towards a semantic lexicon of body part terms
1. Introduction
2. Embodied cognition and linguistic embodiment
3. Cross-linguistic tendencies in extension of body part terms
4. Body part terms and cross-linguistic equivalence
5. Equivalence of extended senses
Concluding remarks and further research questions
Acknowledgement
References
Body part terms in musical discourse
1. Introduction
2. Body part terms in organology
3. Body part terms in theories of musical form
4. Body part terms in Western notation practice
5. Conclusion
References
Part 2. Grammaticalization Studies
'Body' and the relationship between verb and participants
1. The aim of the study
2. The problem
3. Co-referentiality of arguments within the clause in Pero
4. Other grammatical function of the noun 'cíg' 'body'
4.1 Hypothesis 1: Classes of verbs
4.2 Contrast between the form cíg, its absence, and other morphemes in the same position
4.3 Classes of nouns as a factor in the use of cíg?
4.4 An overarching hypothesis
5. Marking the pronominal object as evidence for the non-affectedness function of the form 'cíg'
5.1 Conclusions about Pero
6. Body in Mina and Lele
6.1 Mina
6.2 Lele
7. Conclusions
References
On the grammatical uses of the 'head' in Wolof: From reflexivity to intensifying uses
1. Introduction
2. The noun 'bopp' 'head' and why it did not grammaticalize into a locative marker
3. The reflexive pronoun
3.1 Direct Reflexive vs. Middle construction
3.2 Oblique reflexives
3.3 Genitive (possessive) reflexives
4. The prepositional reflexive as an adnominal intensifier
4.1 Emphasizing agentivity ('by him or herself')
4.2 Emphasizing identity ('in person', 'per se', 'the actual one')
4.3 Emphasizing the inclusion in an ordered list ('even him or her')
4.4 Semantic continuity, limits and motivation: Comparison with 'ci wàllu boppam'
5. Conclusion
Aknowledments
References
Multifaceted body parts in Murui: A case study from Northwest Amazonia
1. Typological profile of Murui
2. Murui body part terms and grammaticalization
2.1 The domain of spatial orientation and time
2.2 The domain of comparison
2.3 The domain of counting
2.4 The domain of 'self'
3. Summary
References
Appendix
Part 3. Lexical Case Studies
The metonymic folk model of language in Turkish
1. Introduction
2. Data collection and analysis
3. Conceptualizations of 'dil' 'tongue'
3.1 Tongue for speaking
3.2 Tongue for speech
3.3 Tongue for language
4. Conceptualizations of 'agız' 'mouth'
4.1 Mouth for speaking
4.2 Mouth for speech
4.3 Mouth for language (subdialect)
5. Conceptualizations of 'dudak' 'lip'
6. Conceptualizations of 'çene' 'chin'
7. Conceptualizations of 'ses' 'voice'
8. Discussion
9. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Dictionaries
Keeping an eye on body parts: Cultural conceptualizations of the 'eye' in Hungarian
1. Introduction
2. Conceptualization of body parts
2.1 Embodiment in language
2.2 Previous research on 'eye'
3. Meanings of 'szem' 'eye'
4. Conceptualizations of 'szem'
4.1 Szem as the SEAT OF CULTURAL VALUES
4.1.1 Conceptualizations of morality and conscience
4.1.2 Conceptualizations of respect
4.2 PERCEPTION/ALERTNESS
4.3 SZEM as the SEAT OF INTELLECT
4.4 SZEM as the SEAT OF EMOTION
4.5 BEHAVIOR
4.6 INTERPERSONAL POWER, CONTROL and the cultural schema EVIL EYE
4.7 Summary
5. Spatial metaphors related to 'szem': The case study of 'szeme közé'
6. Conclusion
References
The conceptualization of 'ido' 'eye' in Hausa
1. Introduction
2. 'Ido' 'eye' as body part
3. The figurative uses of 'ido' 'eye'
3.1. The lexicalization of ido in compounds
3.2. Ido as an instrument for looking
3.3. Ido and the conceptualization of sight
3.4. Ido in the domain of knowledge
3.5. Ido in the domain of attention
3.6. Ido in the domains of decision and measurement
3.7. Ido as indicator of emotions
3.8. Ido as character traits
4. Reflexivity
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Conceptualisations of entrails in English and Polish
1. Introduction
2. Conceptualisations of guts in the English language
2.1. The bowels as the seat of emotions
2.2. Entrails as the location of true feelings and emotions
2.3. The GUTS ARE KNOWLEDGE/ EMOTIONS metaphor
2.4. Metonymical and metaphorical extensions
2.5. The figurative association between entrails and courage
2.6. Guts in the process of grammaticalisation and word formation
2.7. Other conceptualisations
3. Conceptualisations of guts in Polish
4. Summary
Acknowledgement
References
Cultural conceptualisations of 'nawsk' 'belly/stomach' in Kurdish
1. Introduction
2. The language and its speakers
3. Synopsis of the research design, method, and sources of data
4. Cultural linguistics
5. 'Sk' and 'Nawsk' conceptual categories
5.1 'Sk' category
5.2 Nawsk category
6. 'Nawsk' and conceptualisations of emotions in Kurdish
6.1 Nawsk as love, passion, and intimacy
6.2 Nawsk as sympathy, empathy, and pity
6.3 Nawsk as hate, curse, and revenge
6.4 Nawsk as complain, fear, and anger
7. 'Nawsk' conceptualisations and personality traits, character and mood
7.1 Wicked and devilish
7.2 Gluttonous and insatiable
7.3 Opportunistic and greedy
7.4 An abusive person
7.5 A nag
8. 'Nawsk' and conceptual metaphor
8.1 Nawsk can be filled or emptied
8.2 Nawsk can be tightened or torn
9. Conceptualisations of 'Nawsk' in Kurdish literature
10. Concluding remarks
References
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