Introduction

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