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Author:   Melike Bas ,  Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   31
Weight:   0.752kg
ISBN:  

9789004498587

ISBN 10:   9004498583
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   02 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Overview of the Volume Melike Bas 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 Malgorzata Wasniewska Part 2 Case Studies from Europe 3 The Moral Eye: A Study of Hungarian szem Judit Baranyine Koczy 4 A Corpus Study of the Semantic Extensions of the Eye in Turkish Melike Bas 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-Starzynska 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 (Arawa) 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

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Melike Bas 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).

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