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1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; volume 8
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Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; v. 8.
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| Note |
Most of the chapters of the present volume developed from papers presented at the international conference "The Body in Language" held in Warsaw on the 21-22 October 2011. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; Notes on Contributors; The Body in Language: An Introduction; Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Patterns of Body Part Terms; The Body in Language: Observations from Grammaticalization; Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Ethiosemitic; Extending Body-Part Terms in the Domain of Emotions; Corporeal Incorporation and Extension in Dene Sųłiné (Athapaskan) Lexicalization; The Cow's Body as the Source Domain of Philosophical Metaphors in the Rg̣veda: The Case of 'Udder' (ú̄dhar); Conceptualization of the Body and Self. |
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Our Collocating Body Parts: Recurring Images of Self and Other in the Use of English Body-Part TermsNotions of SELF in Hausa; Embodied Languages and Other Modalities; Hausa Metaphors: Gestural Idioms Containing Body-Part Terms; The Up/Down Orientation in Language and Music; Case Studies from Africa; Embodiment in Zande; Body Parts We Live By in Language and Culture: The raaS 'head' and yidd 'hand' in Tunisian Arabic; What Hands/Arms Can Say: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Swahili Body-Part Terms Mkono and Mikono; Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Mundabli. |
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Whomever It Concerns-Notions of Control, Initiation and Affectedness in Expressions of Body-Centred Activities in MbembeSexual, Impure, Vulgar: An Analysis of the Intimate Body-Part Terms in Egyptian Arabic; Case Studies from Europe; Selected Body-Part Terms as a Means for Conveying Abstract Concepts in The Economist: The Case of Head, Eye, Mouth and Nose; Semiotic Conceptualization of the Human Body and the Case Study of Russian 'Navel'; Author Index; Language Index; Subject Index. |
| Summary |
The Body in Language provides theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication as well as on cognitive linguistics in general. Case studies discuss the embodiment in a wide range of languages and from diverse cultures on various continents. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Language and languages -- Origin.
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Language and languages -- Origin. |
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Semantics -- Psychological aspects.
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Semantics -- Psychological aspects. |
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Gesture.
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Gesture. |
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Cognitive grammar.
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Cognitive grammar. |
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Metaphor.
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Metaphor. |
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Metonyms.
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Metonyms. |
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Anthropological linguistics.
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Anthropological linguistics. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Brenzinger, Matthias, 1957- editor.
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Kraska, Iwona, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Body in language. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014] 9789004274280 (DLC) 2014015504 (OCoLC)879119460 |
| ISBN |
9789004274297 (electronic book) |
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9004274294 (electronic book) |
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9789004274280 |
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9004274286 |
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