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Culture, Body, and Language - Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs across Cultures and Languages (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Culture, Body, and Language - Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs across Cultures and Languages (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]
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One of the central themes in cognitive linguistics is the uniquely
human development of some higher potential called the "mind" and,
more particularly, the intertwining of body and mind, which has
come to be known as embodiment. Several books and volumes have
explored this theme in length. However, the interaction between
culture, body and language has not received the due attention that
it deserves. Naturally, any serious exploration of the interface
between body, language and culture would require an analytical tool
that would capture the ways in which different cultural groups
conceptualize their feelings, thinking, and other experiences in
relation to body and language. A well-established notion that
appears to be promising in this direction is that of cultural
models, constituting the building blocks of a group's cultural
cognition. The volume results from an attempt to bring together a
group of scholars from various language backgrounds to make a
collective attempt to explore the relationship between body,
language and culture by focusing on conceptualizations of the heart
and other internal body organs across a number of languages. The
general aim of this venture is to explore (a) the ways in which
internal body organs have been employed in different languages to
conceptualize human experiences such as emotions and/or workings of
the mind, and (b) the cultural models that appear to account for
the observed similarities as well as differences of the various
conceptualizations of internal body organs. The volume as a whole
engages not only with linguistic analyses of terms that refer to
internal body organs across different languages but also with the
origin of the cultural models that are associated with internal
body organs in different cultural systems, such as ethnomedical and
religious traditions. Some contributions also discuss their
findings in relations to some philosophical doctrines that have
addressed the relationship between mind, body, and language, such
as that of Descartes.
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