Full Description
The book explores the conceptualization of the 'heart' as it is represented in 19 languages, ranging from broadly studied to endangered ones. Being one of the most extensively utilised body part name for figurative usages, it lends itself to rich polysemy and a wide array of metaphorical and metonymical meanings. The present book offers a rich selection of papers which observe the lexeme 'heart' from diverse perspectives, employing primarily the frameworks of cognitive and cultural linguistics as well as formal methodologies of lexicology and morphology. The findings are unique and novel contributions to the research of body-part semantics, embodied cognition and metaphor analysis, and in general, the investigation of the interconnectedness of language, culture, cognition and perception about the human body.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Tables
List of Figures
Abbreviations of languages
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Cultural Conceptualizations of the Heart across Languages and Cultures
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Katalin Sipőcz
Part 1 Cognitive Linguistic and Cultural Linguistic Approaches
1 Heart in the Kazakh Language
Saule Abdramanova
2 More Than Emotions: Cultural Conceptualizations of szív 'Heart' in Hungarian
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy
3 The Conceptualization of the Finnish sydän 'Heart'
Bernadett Bíró and Anna Orava
4 Conceptual Metaphor Appearances in Near-synonymous Words: A Corpus-Based Examination on kalp and yürek 'Heart' in Turkish
Ayşe Eda Gündoğdu
5 Polish serce 'Heart': Usage Patterns and Cultural Conceptualizations
Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
6 The Role of Heart in the Conceptualization of Emotions in Udmurt
Rebeka Kubitsch
7 Culturally Embodied Conceptualizations of the Heart, with Special Reference to Tunisian Arabic
Zouheir Maalej
8 On the Linguistic Expressions of dil 'Heart' in Kurdish
Vahede Nosrati
9 Conceptualising the Heart in Yorùbá Cultural Contexts
Akin Odebunmi
10 The Sanctity of English 'Heart'
Keslie Pattillo
11 My Heart Is Dancing with Joy: Cultural Conceptualisations of the Heart in Serbian
Diana Prodanović Stankić
12 The Conceptualizations and Semantic Extensions of Ɓernde 'Heart' in Fulfulde
Ahmadu Shehu
13 The Conceptualization of Mansi sim 'Heart'
Katalin Sipőcz
14 The Heart in Buryat
Sándor Szeverényi and Bayarma Khabtagaeva
Part 2 Lexicographic and Other Formal Approaches
15 Argentina, Eat Your Cows out! Lexical Substitution in English and Japanese Heart Idioms
Carey Benom
16 Heart in Ainu
José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente
17 Psycho-Collocations with Ini 'Heart' in Teposcolula Mixtec
Lena Weissmann
18 Cor(Ação) Chained by Metonymy
Aleksandra Wilkos
19 The 'Heart' Is the Mind: the 'Heart'-'Mind' Interaction in Chinese
Yi Tie and Yongxian Luo
Index of Languages
