The body in language : : comparative studies of linguistic embodiment / / edited by Matthias Brenzinger and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, Volume 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Brenzinger, Matthias, 1957-; Kraska, Iwona,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; Volume 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Notes: Most of the chapters of the present volume developed from papers presented at the international conference "The Body in Language" held in Warsaw on the 21-22 October 2011.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; The Body in Language: An Introduction /; The Body in Language: Observations from Grammaticalization /; Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Ethiosemitic /; Extending Body-Part Terms in the Domain of Emotions /; Corporeal Incorporation and Extension in Dene Sųłiné (Athapaskan) Lexicalization /; The Cow’s Body as the Source Domain of Philosophical Metaphors in the Ṛgveda: The Case of ‘Udder’ (ūdhar) /; Our Collocating Body Parts: Recurring Images of Self and Other in the Use of English Body-Part Terms /; Notions of self in Hausa /; Hausa Metaphors: Gestural Idioms Containing Body-Part Terms /; The up/down Orientation in Language and Music /; Embodiment in Zande /; Body Parts We Live By in Language and Culture: The raaS ‘Head’ and yidd ‘Hand’ in Tunisian Arabic /; What Hands/Arms Can Say: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Swahili Body-Part Terms Mkono and Mikono /; Grammaticalization of Body Part Terms in Mundabli /; Whomever It Concerns—Notions of Control, Initiation and Affectedness in Expressions of Body-Centred Activities in Mbembe /; Sexual, Impure, Vulgar: An Analysis of the Intimate Body-Part Terms in Egyptian Arabic /; Selected Body-Part Terms as a Means for Conveying Abstract Concepts in The Economist: The Case of Head, Eye, Mouth and Nose /; Semiotic Conceptualization of the Human Body and the Case Study of Russian ‘Navel’ /; Author Index --; Language Index --; Subject Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004274294
• ISSN: 1879-5412
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Matthias Brenzinger and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk.

The Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of linguistic embodiment in its universal and cultural aspects. The contributions of the volume offer theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication and - by discussing metaphorization and metonymy in figurative language - on cognitive linguistics in general. Case studies contribute first-hand data on embodiment from more than 15 languages and present findings on the body in language in diverse cultures from various continents. Embodiment fundamentally underlies human conceptualization and the present discussions reveal a wide range of target domains in conceptual transfers with the body as the source domain.