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Title:
Culture, Body, and Language : Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs across Cultures and Languages
Author:
Dirven, René, contributor.
ISBN:
9783110199109
Physical Description:
1 online resource (431 p.)
Series:
Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 7
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- A. Introduction -- Culture and language: Looking for the "mind" inside -- the body -- B. Abdomen-centering conceptualizations -- Gut feelings: Locating intellect, emotionand -- lifeforce in the Thaayorre body -- Did he break your heart or your liver? A -- contrastive study on metaphorical concepts from the source domain ORGAN -- in English and in Indonesian -- Contrastive semantics and cultural -- psychology:English heart vs. Malay hati -- Guts, heart and liver: The conceptualization of -- internal organs in Basque -- C. Holistic heart-centering -- conceptualizations -- The Chinese heart as the central faculty of -- cognition -- The heart - What it means to the Japanese -- speakers -- How to have a HEART in Japanese -- The Korean conceptualization of heart: An -- indigenous perspective -- D. Dualistic heart/head-centering -- conceptualizations -- Conceptualizations of del 'heart-stomach' in -- Persian -- Expressions concerning the heart (libbā) in -- Northeastern Neo-Aramaic in relation to a Classical Syriac model of the -- temperaments -- Hearts and (angry) minds in Old English -- To be in control: kind-hearted and cool-headed. The -- head-heart dichotomy in English -- The heart as a source of semiosis: The case of -- Dutch -- The heart and cultural embodiment in Tunisian -- Arabic -- Backmatter
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