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).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Overview of the VolumeMelike Baş and Iwona Kraska-SzlenkPart 1 Crosslinguistic Studies1 General Patterns in Semantic Expressions of the ‘Eye’Kelsie Pattillo2 Investigating Entities “Placed” in the Eye in a Cross-Linguistic PerspectiveMałgorzata WaśniewskaPart 2 Case Studies from Europe3 The Moral Eye: A Study of Hungarian szemJudit Baranyiné Kóczy4 A Corpus Study of the Semantic Extensions of the Eye in TurkishMelike Baş5 Polish oko ‘Eye’ and Its (Quasi) Diminutive oczko: Semantic Extensions and Usage PatternsIwona Kraska-SzlenkPart 3 Case Studies from Asia6 Metaphorical Mappings of ‘Eye’ in ChineseXiugui Qin and Yongxian Luo7 Aankhon-aankhon me (‘In between the Eyes’): A Cognitive-Linguistic View of the ‘Eye’ Metaphors in HindiSuneeta Mishra8 A Glance at the Mongolian EyeJan Rogala9 Preliminary Study on ‘Eye’ in the Tibetan Language (with Reference to Literature)Agata Bareja-StarzyńskaPart 4 Case Studies from Africa10 What Do eyes Mean to a Pullo? Body, Cognition and Cultural ConceptualizationAhmadu Shehu11 ‘Jicho kwa jicho’—‘iso ngeso’: A Comparative Study of ‘Eye’ Expressions in Swahili and ZuluRosanna TramutoliPart 5 Case Studies from America12 ‘Eye’ in the Zamucoan LanguagesLuca Ciucci13 Semantic Extensions of ‘Eye’ in Deni (Arawá)Mateus Cruz Maciel de CarvalhoPart 6 Case Studies from Oceania14 Visual Perception in Doromu-KokiRobert L. Bradshaw15 Metaphoric Meaning Extensions and Expressions of ‘Eye(s)’ in Bena BenaCarola EmkowIndex