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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
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This edited book addresses ways in which 'bodies' conceived broadly - get languaged, and ways in which ideas of 'normalcy' and 'normal' bodies are held in place and reproduced. The articles show how it is through this medium that people with ailments or 'unusual' bodies get positioned and slotted in certain ways. The present volume represents a departure from other works in at least two ways. First, it brings in discourses around bodies per se into language-related research, a realm that previous research has not directly engaged. Second, it ushers in discussions about bodies by critically addressing the language by which experiences around bodily breakdowns and ailments occur. Calling attention to a host of discourses - biomedical, societal, poststructuralist - and drawing on a variety of disciplinary perspectives, critical theories, ethnographically gathered materials, and extant data, the chapters pierce the general veil of silence that we have collectively drawn regarding how some of our most intimate body (dis)functions impact our everyday living and sense of "normalcy".
Communication in medicine. --- Human body and language. --- Body, Human, and language --- Language and the human body --- Language and languages --- Health communication --- Medical communication --- Medicine --- Communication in medicine --- Human body and language --- #KVHA:Gezondheidscommunicatie --- #KVHA:Meertalige communicatie --- #KVHA:New data-driven methodologies --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- Applied linguistics, Applied sociolinguistics, Discourse analysis.
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