Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

Judit Baranyiné Kóczy is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary. Her research focuses on language, conceptualisation, and culture within the framework of cognitive semantics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Cultural Linguistics. She studies embodiment via body-parts, embodied cultural metaphors, folk cultural metaphors and corpus linguistics. She is the author of Nature, Metaphor, Culture: Cultural Conceptualizations in Hungarian Folksongs (Springer, 2018).Katalin Sipőcz is the head of the Finno-Ugric Department at the University of Szeged, where she teaches Finno-Ugric Linguistics. Her Ph.D. dissertation dealt with body part terms in Uralic languages. Currently, her research mainly focuses on Ob-Ugric languages (West-Siberia), in particular Mansi. After conducting fieldwork, she has published a monograph about Mansi color terms, and recently she has investigated several aspects of Mansi syntax (negation, transitivity, ditransitivity).

• AcknowledgmentsList of TablesList of FiguresAbbreviations of languagesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Cultural Conceptualizations of the Heart across Languages and CulturesJudit Baranyiné Kóczy and Katalin SipőczPart 1 Cognitive Linguistic and Cultural Linguistic Approaches1 Heart in the Kazakh LanguageSaule Abdramanova2 More Than Emotions: Cultural Conceptualizations of szív ‘Heart’ in HungarianJudit Baranyiné Kóczy3 The Conceptualization of the Finnish sydän ‘Heart’Bernadett Bíró and Anna Orava4 Conceptual Metaphor Appearances in Near-synonymous Words: A Corpus-Based Examination on kalp and yürek ‘Heart’ in TurkishAyşe Eda Gündoğdu5 Polish serce ‘Heart’: Usage Patterns and Cultural ConceptualizationsIwona Kraska-Szlenk6 The Role of Heart in the Conceptualization of Emotions in UdmurtRebeka Kubitsch7 Culturally Embodied Conceptualizations of the Heart, with Special Reference to Tunisian ArabicZouheir Maalej8 On the Linguistic Expressions of dil ‘Heart’ in KurdishVahede Nosrati9 Conceptualising the Heart in Yorùbá Cultural ContextsAkin Odebunmi10 The Sanctity of English ‘Heart’Keslie Pattillo11 My Heart Is Dancing with Joy: Cultural Conceptualisations of the Heart in SerbianDiana Prodanović Stankić12 The Conceptualizations and Semantic Extensions of Ɓernde ‘Heart’ in FulfuldeAhmadu Shehu13 The Conceptualization of Mansi sim ‘Heart’Katalin Sipőcz14 The Heart in BuryatSándor Szeverényi and Bayarma KhabtagaevaPart 2 Lexicographic and Other Formal Approaches15 Argentina, Eat Your Cows out! Lexical Substitution in English and Japanese Heart IdiomsCarey Benom16 Heart in AinuJosé Andrés Alonso de la Fuente17 Psycho-Collocations with Ini ‘Heart’ in Teposcolula MixtecLena Weissmann18 Cor(Ação) Chained by MetonymyAleksandra Wilkos19 The ‘Heart’ Is the Mind: the ‘Heart’-‘Mind’ Interaction in ChineseYi Tie and Yongxian LuoIndex of Languages