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This book presents the first cross-linguistic experiment on how the abstract concepts of LIFE and DEATH are embodied in English, German, and Persian. Using two complementary approaches, it first identifies the prototypes—color, form, vehicle, material, place, body parts, actions, direction and position, smell, and taste—that ground these concepts in bodily experiences. It then reports and explains the cultural reasoning behind prototype choices in abstract and metaphoric language. Statistical analyses, including regression modeling, reveal how education, religion, nationality, age, gender, and handedness predict prototype selection across the three languages. Early chapters trace the shift from formal linguistics to cognitive semantics and embodiment, discussing metaphor theories and prototypicality, while later chapters present detailed language-specific findings. Clear and engaging, this interdisciplinary study advances research on embodied language across cultures, offering essential insights for linguistics, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science, accessible to both specialists and general readers.
Hassan Banaruee is a Research Assistant at the University of Education Weingarten, Germany. His work spans cognitive and educational psychology and psycholinguistics, with interests in humor, metaphor, embodied language, motion events, and co-speech gestures. He is developing the emerging field of social cognition in education, integrating cognition, social psychology, and teaching.
Omid Khatin-Zadeh is an Associate Researcher at the School of Foreign Languages, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His work in psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology focuses on embodied cognition, metaphor processing, concepts, gesture, and motion-based language. He explores mathematical cognition and the interplay between gesture and thought.
Sommario
Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Embodiment.- Chapter Three: Metaphoric Language.- Chapter Four: Body and Embodiment.- Chapter Five: Embodied Language in Persian.- Chapter Six: Embodied Language in German.- Chapter Seven: Embodied Language in English.- Chapter Eight: Prototypes and Language.- Chapter Nine: Perceptual and sensory norms and Embodied Language.
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Hassan Banaruee is a Research Assistant at the University of Education Weingarten, Germany. His work spans cognitive and educational psychology and psycholinguistics, with interests in humor, metaphor, embodied language, motion events, and co-speech gestures. He is developing the emerging field of social cognition in education, integrating cognition, social psychology, and teaching.
Omid Khatin-Zadeh is an Associate Researcher at the School of Foreign Languages, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His work in psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology focuses on embodied cognition, metaphor processing, concepts, gesture, and motion-based language. He explores mathematical cognition and the interplay between gesture and thought.
Riassunto
This book presents the first cross-linguistic experiment on how the abstract concepts of LIFE and DEATH are embodied in English, German, and Persian. Using two complementary approaches, it first identifies the prototypes—color, form, vehicle, material, place, body parts, actions, direction and position, smell, and taste—that ground these concepts in bodily experiences. It then reports and explains the cultural reasoning behind prototype choices in abstract and metaphoric language. Statistical analyses, including regression modeling, reveal how education, religion, nationality, age, gender, and handedness predict prototype selection across the three languages. Early chapters trace the shift from formal linguistics to cognitive semantics and embodiment, discussing metaphor theories and prototypicality, while later chapters present detailed language-specific findings. Clear and engaging, this interdisciplinary study advances research on embodied language across cultures, offering essential insights for linguistics, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science, accessible to both specialists and general readers.
