Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies : The 'Head'.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (289 pages)
- Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture Series ; v.20 .
- Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture Series .
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.