Author : Zouheir A. Maalej
Release : 2011-08-18
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 136/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Embodiment via Body Parts by : Zouheir A. Maalej
Download or read book Embodiment via Body Parts written by Zouheir A. Maalej. This book was released on 2011-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on the “embodiment hypothesis” within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions, mental faculties, character traits, cultural values, and so on, in various cultures, as manifested in their respective languages. It brings together some linguistic evidence that sheds light on the embodied nature of human cognition from languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish. The studies in this volume also show how embodiment is mediated in those languages through such cognitive mechanisms as metonymy and metaphor.