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Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

by Kelsie Pattillo
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004521964
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 320
  • Original Price: GBP 131.2
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 617 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / Semantics

This comparative volume explores how speakers across languages use the concept of the 'face' to describe emotions, human interaction, and directions. The analyses discuss cognitive processes involved in extending human body parts to concepts beyond the body.

Pattillo, Kelsie: - Kelsie Pattillo, Ph.D. (2014), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is a Visiting Scholar and former Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research primarily focuses on both cross-linguistic and diachronic tendencies. She has published numerous chapters and articles on embodiment, among others in Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The 'Eye' (Baş and Kraska-Szlenk eds., 2022, Brill) and The 'Head' (Kraska-Szlenk ed., 2019, Brill) and "On the Borrowability of Body Parts" in the Journal of Language Contact, 14.2 (2021).

Malgorzata Waśniewska is a teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of English Studies in the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses mainly on linguistic techniques of dehumanization in discourse, in the scope of cognitive linguistics. She has published chapters on the topic of embodiment, among others in Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The 'Eye' (Baş and Kraska-Szlenk, 2022, Brill) and in Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage (Kraska-Szlenk ed., 2020, John Benjamins).

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