Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies : the 'head' / edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Embodied lexicon and the 'head' / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- 1. 'Head(s)' in Portuguese: the Metaphor in European and Brazilian Portuguese / Aleksandra Wilkos, Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho -- 2. On the Lexeme 'Head' in Zamucoan / Luca Ciucci -- 3. What the Grammaticalization of 'Head' Reveals about the Semantic Structure of a Language? / Zygmunt Frajzyngier -- 4. 'Head' in Some Non-Bantu Languages of the Oriental Province of DR Congo / Helma Pasch -- 5. "Head" as a Link of Embodiment in Chinese / Yongxian Luo -- 6. From Head to Toe: How Languages Extend the Head to Name Body Parts / Kelsie Pattillo -- 7. Metonymic Extensions of the Body Part 'Head' in Mental and Social Domains / Iwona Kraska-Szlenk -- 8. The Conceptualization of HEAD among the Hausa Based on Verbal and Nonverbal Representation / Izabela Will -- 9. Semantics of Amharic ras 'Head' / Abinet Sime -- 10. 'Head' Idioms in Turkish: Contrasts and Correlations / Filiz Mutlu -- Aysel kapan, Ali Yagiz Sen, Hilal Yildirim-Gundogdu, Asli Goksel -- 11. 'He cracked his head feverishly': conceptualizations of head and thinking in Hungarian / Judit Baranyine Koczy -- 12. Semantic Extensions of tatini 'Her Head' and tati 'His Head' in Deni (Arawa) / Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho -- 13. Wulaya 'Head' in Yanyuwa / Alice Gaby, John Bradley -- Index.