Culture, Body, and Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture, Body, and Language write by Farzad Sharifian. This book was released on 2008-11-03. Culture, Body, and Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Culture, Body, and Language
Culture, Body, and Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture, Body, and Language write by Farzad Sharifian. This book was released on 2008. Culture, Body, and Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The volume makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the intricate relationship between culture, body and language by focusing on conceptualizations of internal body organs in several languages. The studies explore how across various cultures internal body organs such as the heart have been used as the locus of conceptualizing feelings, thinking, knowing, etc. Such conceptualizations appear to be rooted in cultural systems such as ethnomedical and religious traditions. The volume engages with these themes using the analytical tools developed in cognitive linguistics and cognitive anthropology."--BOOK JACKET.
Culture, Body, and Language
Culture, Body, and Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture, Body, and Language write by Farzad Sharifian. This book was released on 2008-11-03. Culture, Body, and Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the intricate relationship between culture, body and language by focusing on conceptualizations of internal body organs in several languages. The studies explore how across various cultures internal body organs such as the heart have been used as the locus of conceptualizing feelings, thinking, knowing, etc. Such conceptualizations appear to be rooted in cultural systems such as ethnomedical and religious traditions. The volume engages with these themes using the analytical tools developed in cognitive linguistics and cognitive anthropology.
Metaphor and Emotion
Metaphor and Emotion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metaphor and Emotion write by Zoltán Kövecses. This book was released on 2003-09. Metaphor and Emotion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e., social constructionism). This book challenges this simplistic division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent "constructed" from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings. The view proposed here demonstrates how cultural aspects of emotions, metaphorical language about the emotions, and human physiology in emotion are all part of an intergrated system and shows how this system points to the reconciliation of the seemingly contradictory views of biological reductionism and social constructionism in contemporary debates about human emotion.
Body Language in Literature
Body Language in Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Body Language in Literature write by Barbara Korte. This book was released on 1997-01-01. Body Language in Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An important interdisciplinary study, that establishes a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of the phenomenon in the English language.
