Full Description
In this volume, questions at the intersection of mental representations and their verbal and non-verbal means of expression are discussed, using embodiment theory as a basis. Focus is placed on establishing interdisciplinary relationships between linguistics, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, cultural studies, literary studies and translation studies. The theoretical reflections are studied in a vast catalogue of different culture-specific phenomena from the world's most diverse European, Asian, African and Ancient American cultures. The book is divided into three parts: 1. The Relation of Body, Mind and Language, 2. Culture-Specific Concepts and their Linguistic and Ideographic Expression, and 3. Embodiment, Disembodiment, Intercorporeality and Physical Expression.
Contents
Kerstin Störl
Introduction ................................................................................................................ 7
The Relation of Body, Mind and Language
Gerda Haßler
Overcoming the Dualism of Body and Mind as an Anthropological and Linguistic Challenge ............................................................................................... 27
Ulrich Ansorge / Diane Baier / Florian Goller / Soonja Choi
Linguistic Relativity in Spatial Semantics: Evidence from German and Korean ....................................................................................................................... 47
Michael Metzeltin
How "Physical" Should Our Sentence Analysis Be? ........................................... 61
Kerstin Störl
Rational and Non- rational Elements in Cognitive Processes: A Study of the Andean and Amazonian Cultures of Peru .................................................... 67
Culture- Specific Concepts and their Linguistic and Ideographic Expression
Rainer E. Zimmermann
The Representation of Korean Social Space ....................................................... 109
Silke Järvenpää
Myth and the Brexit: Irrational Thinking in the Digital Age ........................... 143
Petrea Lindenbauer
The Concept of Honour in the Siete Partidas: Analysis of a Legal Text Edited by Alfonso X of Castile 1256- 1265 ........................................................ 155
Teresa Valiente Catter
Of Monsters, Barbarians and Hapiyñuñu in Peru's Early Colonial Period: Anthropological Perspective of Concepts ............................................ 179
Erwin Ebermann
Body Parts and their Metaphorical Use in the Bambara Language in Mali ..................................................................................................................... 207
Gerhard Kubik
The Conceptual World of Tusona Ideographs in Eastern Angola .................. 227
Wilfried Baumgarten
Words and Minds: Mental Representation in Translation and Interpreting ..................................................................................................... 245
Embodiment, Disembodiment, Intercorporeality and Physical Expression
Kerstin Störl
Disembodiment or Acting Out Violence as Culturally Variable Concepts: Examples from the Peruvian Andes, Compared to Occidental Culture .................................................................................................................... 259
Kati Krüger Delgado
The Concept of Baptism in the Dances of Paucartambo (Peru): An Analysis of Sensory Perceptions and Social Factors ......................................... 287
Florin Oprescu
Confessing the Body: Stratagems of Embodiment in Journal d'un corps, by Daniel Pennac ................................................................................................... 299
Stefan Knauß
Resonance, Intercorporeality and Attunement - Resonating Bodies and the Corporeal Dimension of Sociality ................................................................ 311
