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The ‘face’ is the most identifiable feature of the human body, yet the way it is entrenched in language and cognition has not previously been explored cross-linguistically. This comparative volume continues the series on embodied cognition and conceptualization with a focus on the human ‘face’. Each contribution to this volume presents descriptions and analyses of how languages name the ‘face’ and utilize metonymy, metaphor, and polysemy to extend the ‘face’ to overlapping target domains. The contributions include primary and secondary data representing languages originating from around the world. The chapters represent multiple theoretical approaches to describing linguistic embodiment, including cultural, historical, descriptive, and cognitive frameworks. The findings from this diverse set of theoretical approaches and languages contribute to general research in cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics, and onomastics.
Price: $156.00
Pages: 306
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
Publication Date:
22 December 2022
ISBN: 9789004521964
Format: Hardcover
Kelsie Pattillo, Ph.D. (2014), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is a Visiting Scholar and former Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research primarily focuses on both cross-linguistic and diachronic tendencies. She has published numerous chapters and articles on embodiment, among others in Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Eye’ (Baş and Kraska-Szlenk eds., 2022, Brill) and The ‘Head’ (Kraska-Szlenk ed., 2019, Brill) and "On the Borrowability of Body Parts" in the Journal of Language Contact, 14.2 (2021).
Małgorzata Waśniewska is a teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of English Studies in the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses mainly on linguistic techniques of dehumanization in discourse, in the scope of cognitive linguistics. She has published chapters on the topic of embodiment, among others in Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Eye’ (Baş and Kraska-Szlenk, 2022, Brill) and in Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage (Kraska-Szlenk ed., 2020, John Benjamins).
Małgorzata Waśniewska is a teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of English Studies in the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses mainly on linguistic techniques of dehumanization in discourse, in the scope of cognitive linguistics. She has published chapters on the topic of embodiment, among others in Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Eye’ (Baş and Kraska-Szlenk, 2022, Brill) and in Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage (Kraska-Szlenk ed., 2020, John Benjamins).