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Book SynopsisThe volume explores the body part ‘eye’ as a source domain in conceptualization and a vehicle of embodied cognition. It includes in-depth case studies of languages situated in different cultural contexts in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania. It also provides insights into cross-linguistic comparison of conceptualization patterns and semantic extension of the term ‘eye’ on various target domains. The contributions in the volume present a range of cultural models associated with the visual organ which take into account socio-cultural factors and language usage practices. The book offers new material and novel analyses within the subject of polysemy of body part terms. It also adds to studies on metaphor, metonymy and cultural conceptualizations within a cognitive linguistic paradigm.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Overview of the Volume Melike Baş and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Part 1 Crosslinguistic Studies 1 General Patterns in Semantic Expressions of the ‘Eye’ Kelsie Pattillo 2 Investigating Entities “Placed” in the Eye in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective Małgorzata Waśniewska Part 2 Case Studies from Europe 3 The Moral Eye: A Study of Hungarian szem Judit Baranyiné Kóczy 4 A Corpus Study of the Semantic Extensions of the Eye in Turkish Melike Baş 5 Polish oko ‘Eye’ and Its (Quasi) Diminutive oczko: Semantic Extensions and Usage Patterns Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Part 3 Case Studies from Asia 6 Metaphorical Mappings of ‘Eye’ in Chinese Xiugui Qin and Yongxian Luo 7 Aankhon-aankhon me (‘In between the Eyes’): A Cognitive-Linguistic View of the ‘Eye’ Metaphors in Hindi Suneeta Mishra 8 A Glance at the Mongolian Eye Jan Rogala 9 Preliminary Study on ‘Eye’ in the Tibetan Language (with Reference to Literature) Agata Bareja-Starzyńska Part 4 Case Studies from Africa 10 What Do eyes Mean to a Pullo? Body, Cognition and Cultural Conceptualization Ahmadu Shehu 11 ‘Jicho kwa jicho’—‘iso ngeso’: A Comparative Study of ‘Eye’ Expressions in Swahili and Zulu Rosanna Tramutoli Part 5 Case Studies from America 12 ‘Eye’ in the Zamucoan Languages Luca Ciucci 13 Semantic Extensions of ‘Eye’ in Deni (Arawá) Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho Part 6 Case Studies from Oceania 14 Visual Perception in Doromu-Koki Robert L. Bradshaw 15 Metaphoric Meaning Extensions and Expressions of ‘Eye(s)’ in Bena Bena Carola Emkow Index
