Culture, Body, and Language : : Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs across Cultures and Languages / / ed. by Farzad Sharifian, René Dirven, Ning Yu, Susanne Niemeier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Dirven, René,; Foolen, Ad,; Gaby, Alice,; Geeraerts, Dirk,; Gevaert, Caroline,; Goddard, Cliff,; Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide,; Ikegami, Yoshihiko,; Maalej, Zouhair,; Niemeier, Susanne,; Occhi, Debra J,; Sharifian, Farzad,; Siahaan, Poppy,; Wolk, Daniel P.,; Yoon, Kyung-Joo,; Yu, Ning,
• HerausgeberIn: Dirven, René,; Niemeier, Susanne,; Sharifian, Farzad,; Yu, Ning,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (431 p.)

One of the central themes in cognitive linguistics is the uniquely human development of some higher potential called the "mind" and, more particularly, the intertwining of body and mind, which has come to be known as embodiment. Several books and volumes have explored this theme in length. However, the interaction between culture, body and language has not received the due attention that it deserves. Naturally, any serious exploration of the interface between body, language and culture would require an analytical tool that would capture the ways in which different cultural groups conceptualize their feelings, thinking, and other experiences in relation to body and language. A well-established notion that appears to be promising in this direction is that of cultural models, constituting the building blocks of a group's cultural cognition. The volume results from an attempt to bring together a group of scholars from various language backgrounds to make a collective attempt to explore the relationship between body, language and culture by focusing on conceptualizations of the heart and other internal body organs across a number of languages. The general aim of this venture is to explore (a) the ways in which internal body organs have been employed in different languages to conceptualize human experiences such as emotions and/or workings of the mind, and (b) the cultural models that appear to account for the observed similarities as well as differences of the various conceptualizations of internal body organs. The volume as a whole engages not only with linguistic analyses of terms that refer to internal body organs across different languages but also with the origin of the cultural models that are associated with internal body organs in different cultural systems, such as ethnomedical and religious traditions. Some contributions also discuss their findings in relations to some philosophical doctrines that have addressed the relationship between mind, body, and language, such as that of Descartes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- A. Introduction -- Culture and language: Looking for the “mind” inside -- the body -- B. Abdomen-centering conceptualizations -- Gut feelings: Locating intellect, emotionand -- lifeforce in the Thaayorre body -- Did he break your heart or your liver? A -- contrastive study on metaphorical concepts from the source domain ORGAN -- in English and in Indonesian -- Contrastive semantics and cultural -- psychology:English heart vs. Malay hati -- Guts, heart and liver: The conceptualization of -- internal organs in Basque -- C. Holistic heart-centering -- conceptualizations -- The Chinese heart as the central faculty of -- cognition -- The heart – What it means to the Japanese -- speakers -- How to have a HEART in Japanese -- The Korean conceptualization of heart: An -- indigenous perspective -- D. Dualistic heart/head-centering -- conceptualizations -- Conceptualizations of del ‘heart-stomach’ in -- Persian -- Expressions concerning the heart (libbā) in -- Northeastern Neo-Aramaic in relation to a Classical Syriac model of the -- temperaments -- Hearts and (angry) minds in Old English -- To be in control: kind-hearted and cool-headed. The -- head-heart dichotomy in English -- The heart as a source of semiosis: The case of -- Dutch -- The heart and cultural embodiment in Tunisian -- Arabic -- Backmatter