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Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

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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 c...
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  • 21 March 2019
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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.
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Price: $129.00
Pages: 278
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
Publication Date: 21 March 2019
ISBN: 9789004392403
Format: Hardcover
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Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Ph.D. (1995), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Head of the Department of African Languages and Cultures at the University of Warsaw. She has published books and articles on phonology-morphology interface, analogy, embodiment and language-culture connection. Contributors are: Abinet Sime, Judit Baranyiné Kóczy, John Bradley, Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho, Luca Ciucci, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Alice Gaby, Aslı Göksel, Aysel Kapan, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Yongxian Luo, Filiz Mutlu, Helma Pasch, Kelsie Pattillo, Ali Yagız Sen, Aleksandra Wilkos, Izabela Will, Hilal Yıldırım-Gündoğdu.