Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies : : the 'head' / / edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk.

• TeilnehmendeR: Kraska, Iwona,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Contributors --; Embodied Lexicon and the ‘Head’ /; Comparative Studies --; ‘Head(s)’ in Portuguese: the Metaphor in European and Brazilian Portuguese /; On the Lexeme ‘Head’ in Zamucoan /; What the Grammaticalization of ‘Head’ Reveals about the Semantic Structure of a Language? /; ‘Head’ in Some Non-Bantu Languages of the Oriental Province of DR Congo /; ‘Head’ as a Link of Embodiment in Chinese /; From Head to Toe: How Languages Extend the Head to Name Body Parts /; Metonymic Extensions of the Body Part ‘Head’ in Mental and Social Domains /; Case Studies --; The Conceptualization of HEAD among the Hausa Based on Verbal and Nonverbal Representations /; Semantics of Amharic ras ‘Head’ /; ‘Head’ Idioms in Turkish: Contrasts and Correlations /; ‘He Cracked His Head Feverishly’: Conceptualizations of HEAD and THINKING in Hungarian /; Semantic Extensions of tatini ‘Her Head’ and tati ‘His Head’ in Deni (Arawá) /; Wulaya ‘Head’ in Yanyuwa /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004392416
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk.

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.