Index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1. European perspectives
7. The relevance of embodiment to lexical and collocational meaning 23
8. Dynamic body parts in Estonian figurative descriptions of emotion 41
9. Contrasting body parts 71
10. head and eye in German and Indonesian figurative uses 93
11. Part 2. East Asian perspectives
12. Speech organs and linguistic activity/function in Chinese 117
13. Inner and outer body parts 149
14. A cultural-linguistic look at Japanese ‘eye’ expressions 171
15. Part 3. Middle Eastern and North African perspectives
16. Conceptualizations of cheshm ‘eye’ in Persian 197
17. Figurative dimensions of 3ayn ‘eye’ in Tunisian Arabic 213
18. The apocalypse happens when the feet take the position of the head 241
19. Index 257