Embodiment via Body Parts
：Studies from various languages and cultures
( Human Cognitive Processing )
Publication subTitle ：Studies from various languages and cultures
Publication series ： Human Cognitive Processing
Author： Zouheir A. Maalej Ning Yu
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9789027285133
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027223852
Subject： H0-05 Language and other subjects the relationship
Language： ENG
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Description
Research on the “embodiment hypothesis” within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions, mental faculties, character traits, cultural values, and so on, in various cultures, as manifested in their respective languages. It brings together some linguistic evidence that sheds light on the embodied nature of human cognition from languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish. The studies in this volume also show how embodiment is mediated in those languages through such cognitive mechanisms as metonymy and metaphor.