Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies

Melike Baş is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Amasya University, Turkey. She received her PhD degree from Hacettepe University in 2015. Her most recent publications include Contemporary Studies in Turkish Semantics (Ed., 2021). Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Ph.D. (1995), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is Professor at the University of Warsaw. She has recently edited Body Part Terms in Conceptualization and Language Usage (Benjamins, 2020).

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors



Introduction: The Overview of the Volume

 Melike Baş and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk



Part 1 Crosslinguistic Studies



1 General Patterns in Semantic Expressions of the ‘Eye’

 Kelsie Pattillo



2 Investigating Entities “Placed” in the Eye in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective

 Małgorzata Waśniewska



Part 2 Case Studies from Europe



3 The Moral Eye: A Study of Hungarian szem

 Judit Baranyiné Kóczy



4 A Corpus Study of the Semantic Extensions of the Eye in Turkish

 Melike Baş



5 Polish oko ‘Eye’ and Its (Quasi) Diminutive oczko: Semantic Extensions and Usage Patterns

 Iwona Kraska-Szlenk



Part 3 Case Studies from Asia



6 Metaphorical Mappings of ‘Eye’ in Chinese

 Xiugui Qin and Yongxian Luo



7 Aankhon-aankhon me (‘In between the Eyes’): A Cognitive-Linguistic View of the ‘Eye’ Metaphors in Hindi

 Suneeta Mishra



8 A Glance at the Mongolian Eye

 Jan Rogala



9 Preliminary Study on ‘Eye’ in the Tibetan Language (with Reference to Literature)

 Agata Bareja-Starzyńska



Part 4 Case Studies from Africa



10 What Do eyes Mean to a Pullo? Body, Cognition and Cultural Conceptualization

 Ahmadu Shehu



11 ‘Jicho kwa jicho’—‘iso ngeso’: A Comparative Study of ‘Eye’ Expressions in Swahili and Zulu

 Rosanna Tramutoli



Part 5 Case Studies from America



12 ‘Eye’ in the Zamucoan Languages

 Luca Ciucci



13 Semantic Extensions of ‘Eye’ in Deni (Arawá)

 Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho



Part 6 Case Studies from Oceania



14 Visual Perception in Doromu-Koki

 Robert L. Bradshaw



15 Metaphoric Meaning Extensions and Expressions of ‘Eye(s)’ in Bena Bena

 Carola Emkow



Index