Horizons of Cognitive- Cultural Linguistics III.: The Body and Corporeality in Language and Cultural Conceptualizations
Abstract
For the third collaborative monography in the series Horizons of cognitive-cultural linguistics, the authors have chosen - after the preceding volumes dedicated to stereotypes, conceptual schemes, and metaphors - another topic, a related one, connected with the other within the field of cognitive-cultural linguistics. This time, there is the body and human (or even other than human) corporeality in the center of attention.
The title also reflects that the theme of corporeality is developed in the "linguistic and cultural conceptualizations". The focus on interconnecting language and culture - even languages and cultures - was indeed reflected in the preceding volumes.
It is also related to the aspect of comparison, both on the implicit and explicit level. Special attention is given to parts or aspects of the world image focusing on their conceptualization not only in the Czech language (however it is the most frequent), but also in Polish, Russian, and culturally distant (while in the observed aspects even more remarkable) Japanese.
Last but not least, the Czech sign language was taken into account, which is performed not only in the written and spoken form but also in the visual-motoric mode. Traditionally, there are lexicographers among the authors.
Indeed, the specific reflection of corporeality is visible in dictionary entries, too. These are entries related to taboo lexemes (esp. regarding corporeality) or lexemes oriented to somatic expressions (in search of some suitable methods for creating a special onomasiological dictionary).
This book is the authors' first publication within an association called Antropolingva. (http://www.antropolingva.eu/).