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Did he break your heart or your liver? A contrastive study on metaphorical concepts from the source domain ORGAN in English and in Indonesian

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Culture, Body, and Language
This chapter is in the book Culture, Body, and Language

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of contents VII
  3. List of contributors IX
  4. A. Introduction
  5. Culture and language: Looking for the “mind” inside the body 3
  6. B. Abdomen-centering conceptualizations
  7. Gut feelings: Locating intellect, emotionand lifeforce in the Thaayorre body 27
  8. Did he break your heart or your liver? A contrastive study on metaphorical concepts from the source domain ORGAN in English and in Indonesian 45
  9. Contrastive semantics and cultural psychology:English heart vs. Malay hati 75
  10. Guts, heart and liver: The conceptualization of internal organs in Basque 103
  11. C. Holistic heart-centering conceptualizations
  12. The Chinese heart as the central faculty of cognition 131
  13. The heart – What it means to the Japanese speakers 169
  14. How to have a HEART in Japanese 191
  15. The Korean conceptualization of heart: An indigenous perspective 213
  16. D. Dualistic heart/head-centering conceptualizations
  17. Conceptualizations of del ‘heart-stomach’ in Persian 247
  18. Expressions concerning the heart (libbā) in Northeastern Neo-Aramaic in relation to a Classical Syriac model of the temperaments 267
  19. Hearts and (angry) minds in Old English 319
  20. To be in control: kind-hearted and cool-headed. The head-heart dichotomy in English 349
  21. The heart as a source of semiosis: The case of Dutch 373
  22. The heart and cultural embodiment in Tunisian Arabic 395
  23. Backmatter 429
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199109.2.45

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of contents VII
  3. List of contributors IX
  4. A. Introduction
  5. Culture and language: Looking for the “mind” inside the body 3
  6. B. Abdomen-centering conceptualizations
  7. Gut feelings: Locating intellect, emotionand lifeforce in the Thaayorre body 27
  8. Did he break your heart or your liver? A contrastive study on metaphorical concepts from the source domain ORGAN in English and in Indonesian 45
  9. Contrastive semantics and cultural psychology:English heart vs. Malay hati 75
  10. Guts, heart and liver: The conceptualization of internal organs in Basque 103
  11. C. Holistic heart-centering conceptualizations
  12. The Chinese heart as the central faculty of cognition 131
  13. The heart – What it means to the Japanese speakers 169
  14. How to have a HEART in Japanese 191
  15. The Korean conceptualization of heart: An indigenous perspective 213
  16. D. Dualistic heart/head-centering conceptualizations
  17. Conceptualizations of del ‘heart-stomach’ in Persian 247
  18. Expressions concerning the heart (libbā) in Northeastern Neo-Aramaic in relation to a Classical Syriac model of the temperaments 267
  19. Hearts and (angry) minds in Old English 319
  20. To be in control: kind-hearted and cool-headed. The head-heart dichotomy in English 349
  21. The heart as a source of semiosis: The case of Dutch 373
  22. The heart and cultural embodiment in Tunisian Arabic 395
  23. Backmatter 429
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