Culture and language: Looking for the "mind" inside the body

Culture, Body, and Language: Conceptualizations of Internal Body Organs across Cultures and Languages

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3-24

  Sharifian, Farzad ^a   Dirven, René ^d   Yu, Ning ^b   Niemeier, Susanne ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c University of Koblenz   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conceptualization; Culture and language; Heart; Metaphor; Mind body

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048332052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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