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The paper is an attempt to analyze the metaphoric and metonymic nature of the phrases and idioms involving the lexeme ‘eye’ and various entities conceptually located in or inside it from a cross-linguistic perspective, using expressions in English, German, Polish, and Czech. Apart from the linguistic items that express the basic metaphor mental function is perceptual experience, which, in the case of the ‘eye’, may be labelled thinking, knowing, or understanding is seeing, much attention is devoted to the more peripheral conceptualizations of the ‘eye’ that may be considered cultural (and, at times, unique to the particular language and culture) rather than motivated by embodied experience shared by all humans.
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The chapter discusses the various conceptualizations of twarz ‘face’ in Polish based on the framework proposed by Bogdanowska-Jakubowska (2010), along with its synonyms and their own semantic extensions. The rich network of synonyms of twarz in Polish is discussed with regard to their etymology and place in the conceptual system expressed in the Polish language with a view to describing the various linguistic, cognitive, and cultural phenomena that led to their emergence. The conceptualizations of other body part terms semantically related to ‘face’, such as ‘head’ and ‘mouth’ are also discussed within the framework. The analysis leads to conclusions concerning the function of synonyms of twarz ‘face’ and metonymically related concepts in Polish.
The ‘Face’
The ‘face’ is the most identifiable feature of the human body, yet the way it is entrenched in language and cognition has not previously been explored cross-linguistically. This comparative volume continues the series on embodied cognition and conceptualization with a focus on the human ‘face’. Each contribution to this volume presents descriptions and analyses of how languages name the ‘face’ and utilize metonymy, metaphor, and polysemy to extend the ‘face’ to overlapping target domains. The contributions include primary and secondary data representing languages originating from around the world. The chapters represent multiple theoretical approaches to describing linguistic embodiment, including cultural, historical, descriptive, and cognitive frameworks. The findings from this diverse set of theoretical approaches and languages contribute to general research in cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics, and onomastics.
The ‘Face’
The ‘face’ is the most identifiable feature of the human body, yet the way it is entrenched in language and cognition has not previously been explored cross-linguistically. This comparative volume continues the series on embodied cognition and conceptualization with a focus on the human ‘face’. Each contribution to this volume presents descriptions and analyses of how languages name the ‘face’ and utilize metonymy, metaphor, and polysemy to extend the ‘face’ to overlapping target domains. The contributions include primary and secondary data representing languages originating from around the world. The chapters represent multiple theoretical approaches to describing linguistic embodiment, including cultural, historical, descriptive, and cognitive frameworks. The findings from this diverse set of theoretical approaches and languages contribute to general research in cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics, and onomastics.