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Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies
The 'Hand'
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The human hand lies at the center of action, perception, creativity, and social interaction, leaving deep traces in language and culture. This volume examines how the hand is conceptualized across a wide range of languages through metaphor, metonymy, grammar, and cultural models. Bringing together diachronic analyses, corpus-based studies, proverb traditions, and data from both well-documented and lesser-studied languages, it demonstrates how embodied experience shapes meanings related to agency, skill, morality, and cognition. Integrating insights from Cultural Linguistics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and embodiment research, this volume offers a comprehensive cross-linguistic account of how manual experience becomes embedded in linguistic structure and cultural knowledge.
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy is Associate Professor at the University of Pannonia. Her research focuses on Cultural Linguistics and body-part semantics. She authored Nature, Metaphor, Culture: Cultural Conceptualizations in Hungarian Folksongs (Springer) and coedited Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The âHeartâ (2023).
Melike BaÅ, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language Teaching at Amasya University, Türkiye. She has published articles and book chapters on cognitive semantics, including the coedited book Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The âEyeâ (2022).
Melike BaÅ, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language Teaching at Amasya University, Türkiye. She has published articles and book chapters on cognitive semantics, including the coedited book Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The âEyeâ (2022).
This volume targets scholars and graduate students in linguistics, cognitive science, anthropology, cultural studies, and philosophy, particularly those interested in embodiment, semantic change, Cultural Linguistics, and cross-linguistic conceptualization.