Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies : The 'Head'.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Acknowledgements -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction. Embodied Lexicon and the 'Head' (Kraska-Szlenk) -- ‎Part 1. Comparative Studies -- ‎Chapter 1. 'Head(s)' in Portuguese: the Metaphor in European and Brazilian Portuguese (Wilkos and Carvalho) -- ‎Chapter 2. On the Lexeme 'Head' in Zamucoan (Ciucci) -- ‎Chapter 3. What the Grammaticalization of 'Head' Reveals about the Semantic Structure of a Language? (Frajzyngier) -- ‎Chapter 4. 'Head' in Some Non-Bantu Languages of the Oriental Province of DR Congo (Pasch) -- ‎Chapter 5. 'Head' as a Link of Embodiment in Chinese (Luo) -- ‎Chapter 6. From Head to Toe: How Languages Extend the Head to Name Body Parts (Pattillo) -- ‎Chapter 7. Metonymic Extensions of the Body Part 'Head' in Mental and Social Domains (Kraska-Szlenk) -- ‎Part 2. Case Studies -- ‎Chapter 8. The Conceptualization of HEAD among the Hausa Based on Verbal and Nonverbal Representations (Will) -- ‎Chapter 9. Semantics of Amharic ras 'Head' (Sime) -- ‎Chapter 10. 'Head' Idioms in Turkish: Contrasts and Correlations (Mutlu, Kapan, Sen, Yıldırım-Gündoğdu, Göksel) -- ‎Chapter 11. 'He Cracked His Head Feverishly': Conceptualizations of HEAD and THINKING in Hungarian (Baranyiné Kóczy) -- ‎Chapter 12. Semantic Extensions of tatini 'Her Head' and tati 'His Head' in Deni (Arawá) (Carvalho) -- ‎Chapter 13. Wulaya 'Head' in Yanyuwa (Gaby and Bradley) -- ‎Index of Languages -- ‎Index of Names.

The 'Head' edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk offers cross-linguistic studies on the body part term 'head' investigated as a source domain in conceptualization. It focuses on the relationship between embodiment, cultural situatedness and universal tendencies of semantic change.

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