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Research on the "embodiment hypothesis" within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions, mental faculties, character traits, cultural values, and so on in various cultures, as manifested in their respective languages. It brings together some linguistic evidence that sheds light on the embodied nature of human cognition from languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish. The studies in this volume also show how embodiment is mediated in those languages through such cognitive mechanisms as metonymy and metaphor.

Sociolinguistics --- Dialectology --- Langage --- --Corps --- --Métaphore --- --Language and culture --- Human body and language --- Language and languages --- Variation --- Language and culture --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Language and culture. --- Human body and language. --- Variation. --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Body, Human, and language --- Language and the human body --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Corps --- Métaphore --- Language and languages - Variation