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Conceptualisations of entrails in English and Polish

  • Małgorzata Waśniewska
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Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage
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Abstract

The paper discusses various conceptualisations of the intestines in the English and Polish language system and examines the surface linguistic expressions that make explicit the position which the body part occupies within the two conceptual systems. The study, by no means exhaustive, is an attempt to analyse the various roles that the guts play in the human experience, explain how these diverse perceptions came to function in our thoughts and language, and demonstrate the parallels that can be drawn between the conceptualisation of the bowels in the two distantly related languages.

Abstract

The paper discusses various conceptualisations of the intestines in the English and Polish language system and examines the surface linguistic expressions that make explicit the position which the body part occupies within the two conceptual systems. The study, by no means exhaustive, is an attempt to analyse the various roles that the guts play in the human experience, explain how these diverse perceptions came to function in our thoughts and language, and demonstrate the parallels that can be drawn between the conceptualisation of the bowels in the two distantly related languages.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part 1. General and Contrastive Studies
  6. Linguistic embodiment in linguistic experience 11
  7. Polysemic chains, body parts and embodiment 31
  8. Body-part terms as a linguistic topic and the relevance of body-parts as tools 53
  9. Towards a semantic lexicon of body part terms 77
  10. Body part terms in musical discourse 99
  11. Part 2. Grammaticalization Studies
  12. ‘Body’ and the relationship between verb and participants 117
  13. On the grammatical uses of the ‘head’ in Wolof 133
  14. Multifaceted body parts in Murui 169
  15. Part 3. Lexical Case Studies
  16. The metonymic folk model of language in Turkish 195
  17. Keeping an eye on body parts 215
  18. The conceptualization of ido ‘eye’ in Hausa 247
  19. Conceptualisations of entrails in English and Polish 269
  20. Cultural conceptualisations of nawsk ‘belly/stomach’ in Kurdish 291
  21. Index 309
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.12.c12was

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. Introduction 1
  5. Part 1. General and Contrastive Studies
  6. Linguistic embodiment in linguistic experience 11
  7. Polysemic chains, body parts and embodiment 31
  8. Body-part terms as a linguistic topic and the relevance of body-parts as tools 53
  9. Towards a semantic lexicon of body part terms 77
  10. Body part terms in musical discourse 99
  11. Part 2. Grammaticalization Studies
  12. ‘Body’ and the relationship between verb and participants 117
  13. On the grammatical uses of the ‘head’ in Wolof 133
  14. Multifaceted body parts in Murui 169
  15. Part 3. Lexical Case Studies
  16. The metonymic folk model of language in Turkish 195
  17. Keeping an eye on body parts 215
  18. The conceptualization of ido ‘eye’ in Hausa 247
  19. Conceptualisations of entrails in English and Polish 269
  20. Cultural conceptualisations of nawsk ‘belly/stomach’ in Kurdish 291
  21. Index 309
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