The Body in Language : Comparative Studies of Linguistic Embodiment
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| Title: | The Body in Language : Comparative Studies of Linguistic Embodiment |
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| Description: | The Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of linguistic embodiment in its universal and cultural aspects. The contributions of the volume offer theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication and - by discussing metaphorization and metonymy in figurative language - on cognitive linguistics in general. Case studies contribute first-hand data on embodiment from more than 15 languages and present findings on the body in language in diverse cultures from various continents. Embodiment fundamentally underlies human conceptualization and the present discussions reveal a wide range of target domains in conceptual transfers with the body as the source domain. |
| Authors: | Matthias Brenzinger, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Metonyms, Metaphor, Anthropological linguistics, Semantics--Psychological aspects, Language and languages--Origin, Cognitive grammar, Gesture |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment provides new insights into the theory of linguistic embodiment in its universal and cultural aspects. The contributions of the volume offer theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication and - by discussing metaphorization and metonymy in figurative language - on cognitive linguistics in general. Case studies contribute first-hand data on embodiment from more than 15 languages and present findings on the body in language in diverse cultures from various continents. Embodiment fundamentally underlies human conceptualization and the present discussions reveal a wide range of target domains in conceptual transfers with the body as the source domain. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004274280 9789004274297 |
