Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Ph.D. (1995), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Head of the Department of African Languages and Cultures at the University of Warsaw. She has published books and articles on phonology-morphology interface, analogy, embodiment and language-culture connection.Contributors are: Abinet Sime, Judit Baranyiné Kóczy, John Bradley, Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho, Luca Ciucci, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Alice Gaby, Aslı Göksel, Aysel Kapan, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Yongxian Luo, Filiz Mutlu, Helma Pasch, Kelsie Pattillo, Ali Yagız Sen, Aleksandra Wilkos, Izabela Will, Hilal Yıldırım-Gündoğdu.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Embodied Lexicon and the ‘Head’Iwona Kraska-SzlenkPart 1 Comparative Studies1 ‘Head(s)’ in Portuguese: the Metaphor in European and Brazilian PortugueseAleksandra Wilkos and Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho2 On the Lexeme ‘Head’ in ZamucoanLuca Ciucci3 What the Grammaticalization of ‘Head’ Reveals about the Semantic Structure of a Language?Zygmunt Frajzyngier4 ‘Head’ in Some Non-Bantu Languages of the Oriental Province of DR CongoHelma Pasch5 “Head” as a Link of Embodiment in ChineseYongxian Luo6 From Head to Toe: How Languages Extend the Head to Name Body PartsKelsie Pattillo7 Metonymic Extensions of the Body Part ‘Head’ in Mental and Social DomainsIwona Kraska-SzlenkPart 2 Case Studies8 The Conceptualization of HEAD among the Hausa Based on Verbal and Nonverbal RepresentationIzabela Will9 Semantics of Amharic ras ‘Head’Abinet Sime10 ‘Head’ Idioms in Turkish: Contrasts and CorrelationsFiliz Mutlu, Aysel Kapan, Ali Yagiz Sen, Hilal Yıldırım-Gündoğdu and Aslı Göksel11 ‘He Cracked His Head Feverishly’: Conceptualizations of HEAD and THINKING in HungarianJudit Baranyiné Kóczy12 Semantic Extensions of tatini ‘Her Head’ and tati ‘His Head’ in Deni (Arawá)Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho13 Wulaya ‘Head’ in YanyuwaAlice Gaby and John BradleyIndex