From body to meaning in culture : papers on cognitive semantic studies of Chinese /
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1. Bodily experience in feeling and thinking
- Metaphorical expressions of anger and happiness in English and Chinese
- Body and emotion: body parts in Chinese expression of emotion
- Synesthetic metaphor: a cognitive perspective
- Chinese metaphors of thinking
- Section 2. External body parts in conceptualization
- The bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese: what do we do and mean with "hands"?
- Figurative uses of finger and palm in Chinese and English
- What does our face mean to us?
- The eyes for sight and mind
- Speech organs and linguistic activity and function
- Section 3. Internal body organs in conceptualization
- Metaphor, body, and culture: the Chinese understanding of gallbladder and courage
- Heart and cognition in ancient Chinese philosophy
- The Chinese conceptualization of the heart and its cultural context: implications for second language learning.