Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies : the 'heart' /
"The book explores the conceptualization of the 'heart' as it is represented in 19 languages, ranging from broadly studied to endangered ones. Being one of the most extensively utilised body part name for figurative usages, it lends itself to rich polysemy and a wide array of metaphor...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2023.
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| Series: | Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture,
volume 37 |
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| Summary: | "The book explores the conceptualization of the 'heart' as it is represented in 19 languages, ranging from broadly studied to endangered ones. Being one of the most extensively utilised body part name for figurative usages, it lends itself to rich polysemy and a wide array of metaphorical and metonymical meanings. The present book offers a rich selection of papers which observe the lexeme 'heart' from diverse perspectives, employing primarily the frameworks of cognitive and cultural linguistics as well as formal methodologies of lexicology and morphology. The findings are unique and novel contributions to the research of body-part semantics, embodied cognition and metaphor analysis, and in general, the investigation of the interconnectedness of language, culture, cognition and perception about the human body"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 482 pages : charts ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004523036 9004523030 |
| ISSN: | 1879-5412 ; |