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One of the central themes in cognitive linguistics is the uniquely human development of some higher potential called the "mind" and, more particularly, the intertwining of body and mind, which has come to be known as embodiment. Several books and volumes have explored this theme in length....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sharifian, Farzad
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008.
Colección:Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 7.
Temas:
Language and culture.
Human body and language.
Culture.
Philology
Culture
Human Body
Langage et culture.
Corps humain et langage.
Philologie.
philology.
culture note.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Organen (biologie)
Beeldspraak.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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