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This book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The Chinese word xin, which primarily denotes the heart organ, covers the meanings of both "heart" and "mind" as understood in English, which upholds a heart-head dichotomy. In contrast to the Western dualist view, Chinese takes on a more holistic view that sees the heart as the center of both emotions and thought. The contrast characterizes two cultural traditions that have developed different conceptualizations of person, self, and agent of cognition. The concept of "heart" lies at the core of Chinese thought and medicine, and its importance to Chinese culture is extensively manifested in the Chinese language. Diachronically, this book traces the roots of its conception in ancient Chinese philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine. Along the synchronic dimension, it not only makes a systematic analysis of conventionalized expressions that reflect the underlying cultural models and conceptualizations, as well as underlying conceptual metaphors and metonymies, but also attempts a textual analysis of an essay and a number of poems for their metaphoric and metonymic images and imports contributing to the cultural models and conceptualizations. It also takes up a comparative perspective that sheds light on similarities and differences between Western and Chinese cultures in the understanding of the heart, brain, body, mind, self, and person. The book contributes to the understanding of the embodied nature of human cognition situated in its cultural context, and the relationship between language, culture, and cognition.

Xin (The Chinese word) --- Heart --- Cardiopulmonary system --- Cardiovascular system --- Chest --- Chinese language --- Symbolic aspects --- Etymology --- S12/0210 --- S12/0820 --- S15/0210 --- S21/0300 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Special philosophical subjects --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy --- China: Language--Special linguistic subjects --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Chinese medicine: general --- Cognitive psychology --- Psycholinguistics --- Chinese languages --- Chinese (language). --- Cognitive linguistics.

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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