none 10.1075/hcp.31 John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 66132264 1419953 1419929 202507022135000012 10.1075 2025-07-02T19:34:03Z 2013-12-16T22:25:02Z 51 Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use 1387-6724 10.1075/hcp https://benjamins.com/ catalog/hcp Zouheir Maalej King Saud University https://ror.org/02f81g417 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4613-7606 Ning Yu University of Oklahoma https://ror.org/02aqsxs83 Pennsylvania State University https://ror.org/04p491231 https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1820-3205 Studies from various languages and cultures Research on the “embodiment hypothesis” within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions, mental faculties, character traits, cultural values, and so on, in various cultures, as manifested in their respective languages. It brings together some linguistic evidence that sheds light on the embodied nature of human cognition from languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish. The studies in this volume also show how embodiment is mediated in those languages through such cognitive mechanisms as metonymy and metaphor. 31 8 18 2011 8 3 2011 9789027223852 9789027285133 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/hcp.31 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027285133 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027285133.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/hcp.31/html