Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies : The 'Eye'.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (375 pages)
- Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture Series ; v.31 .
- Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction. The Overview of the Volume (Baş and Kraska-Szlenk) -- Part 1. Crosslinguistic Studies -- Chapter 1. General Patterns in Semantic Expressions of the 'Eye' (Pattillo) -- Chapter 2. Investigating Entities "Placed" in the Eye in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Waśniewska) -- Part 2. Case Studies from Europe -- Chapter 3. The Moral Eye: A Study of Hungarian szem (Baranyiné Kóczy) -- Chapter 4. A Corpus Study of the Semantic Extensions of the Eye in Turkish (Baş) -- Chapter 5. Polish oko 'Eye' and Its (Quasi) Diminutive oczko: Semantic Extensions and Usage Patterns (Kraska-Szlenk) -- Part 3. Case Studies from Asia -- Chapter 6. Metaphorical Mappings of the 'Eye' in Chinese (Qin and Luo) -- Chapter 7. Aankhon-aankhon me ('In between the Eyes'): A Cognitive-Linguistic View of the 'Eye' Metaphors in Hindi (Mishra) -- Chapter 8. A Glance at the Mongolian Eye (Rogala) -- Chapter 9. Preliminary Study on 'Eye' in the Tibetan Language (with Reference to Literature) (Bareja-Starzyńska) -- Part 4. Case Studies from Africa -- Chapter 10. What Do eyes Mean to a Pullo? Body, Cognition and Cultural Conceptualization (Shehu) -- Chapter 11. 'Jicho kwa jicho'-'iso ngeso': A Comparative Study of 'Eye' Expressions in Swahili and Zulu (Tramutoli) -- Part 5. Case Studies from America -- Chapter 12. 'Eye' in the Zamucoan Languages (Ciucci) -- Chapter 13. Semantic Extensions of 'Eye' in Deni (Arawá) (Cruz Maciel de Carvalho) -- Part 6. Case Studies from Oceania -- Chapter 14. Visual Perception in Doromu-Koki (Bradshaw) -- Chapter 15. Metaphoric Meaning Extensions and Expressions of 'Eye(s)' in Bena Bena (Emkow) -- Index of Languages -- Index of Authors.
This volume is the first book publication which focuses on conceptualization and polysemy of 'eye'. It encompasses a wide variety of languages to evidence cross linguistic similarities and differences in the semantic extensions of the eye.