Culture, Body, and Language ：Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs across Cultures and Languages ( Applications of Cognitive Linguistics )

Publication subTitle ：Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs across Cultures and Languages

Publication series ：Applications of Cognitive Linguistics

Author： Farzad Sharifian   René Dirven   Ning Yu   Susanne Niemeier  

Publisher： De Gruyter Mouton‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9783110199109

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110196221

Subject： H0-05 Language and other subjects the relationship

Keyword： Cognitive linguistics applied linguistics

Language： ENG

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Description

The volume makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the intricate relationship between culture, body and language by focusing on conceptualizations of internal body organs in several languages. The studies explore how across various cultures internal body organs such as the heart have been used as the locus of conceptualizing feelings, thinking, knowing, etc. Such conceptualizations appear to be rooted in cultural systems such as ethnomedical and religious traditions. The volume engages with these themes using the analytical tools developed in cognitive linguistics and cognitive anthropology.

Chapter

Frontmatter

pp.：  1 – 7

Table of contents

pp.：  7 – 9

List of contributors

pp.：  9 – 13

Culture and language: Looking for the “mind” inside the body

pp.：  13 – 37

Gut feelings: Locating intellect, emotionand lifeforce in the Thaayorre body

pp.：  37 – 55

Did he break your heart or your liver? A contrastive study on metaphorical concepts from the source domain ORGAN in English and in Indonesian

pp.：  55 – 85

Contrastive semantics and cultural psychology:English heart vs. Malay hati

pp.：  85 – 113

Guts, heart and liver: The conceptualization of internal organs in Basque

pp.：  113 – 141

The Chinese heart as the central faculty of cognition

pp.：  141 – 179

The heart – What it means to the Japanese speakers

pp.：  179 – 201

How to have a HEART in Japanese

pp.：  201 – 223

The Korean conceptualization of heart: An indigenous perspective

pp.：  223 – 257

Conceptualizations of del ‘heart-stomach’ in Persian

pp.：  257 – 277

Expressions concerning the heart (libbā) in Northeastern Neo-Aramaic in relation to a Classical Syriac model of the temperaments

pp.：  277 – 329

Hearts and (angry) minds in Old English

pp.：  329 – 359

To be in control: kind-hearted and cool-headed. The head-heart dichotomy in English

pp.：  359 – 383

The heart as a source of semiosis: The case of Dutch

pp.：  383 – 405

The heart and cultural embodiment in Tunisian Arabic

pp.：  405 – 439

Backmatter

pp.：  439 – 445

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