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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
