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Culture, Body, and Language
Language: en
Pages: 445
Authors: Farzad Sharifian
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-03 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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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 inte
Culture, Body, and Language
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Farzad Sharifian
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton

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"The volume makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the intricate relationship between culture, body and language by focusing on conceptualizat
Metaphor and Emotion
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Zoltán Kövecses
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (
Body Language in Literature
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Barbara Korte
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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An important interdisciplinary study, that establishes a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, base
Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-23 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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The volume focuses on body part terms as the vehicle of embodied cognition and conceptualization. It explores the relationship between universal embodiment, lan
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