Short description:

This book offers novel insights into the figurative meanings of the ?heart? across 19 languages, including endangered and extensively studied ones. The selection of papers employ diverse perspectives, primarily the frameworks of cognitive and cultural linguistics and also formal methodologies.

Long description:

The book explores the conceptualization of the ?heart? as it is represented in 19 languages, ranging from broadly studied to endangered ones. Being one of the most extensively utilised body part name for figurative usages, it lends itself to rich polysemy and a wide array of metaphorical and metonymical meanings. The present book offers a rich selection of papers which observe the lexeme ?heart? from diverse perspectives, employing primarily the frameworks of cognitive and cultural linguistics as well as formal methodologies of lexicology and morphology. The findings are unique and novel contributions to the research of body-part semantics, embodied cognition and metaphor analysis, and in general, the investigation of the interconnectedness of language, culture, cognition and perception about the human body.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Tables

List of Figures

Abbreviations of languages

Notes on Contributors



Introduction: Cultural Conceptualizations of the Heart across Languages and Cultures

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Part&&&x00A0;1 Cognitive Linguistic and Cultural Linguistic Approaches

Part 2 Lexicographic and Other Formal Approaches