From the perspective of Cognitive Semantics and Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this collection of papers looks at the relationship between language, body, culture, and cognition. In particular, it looks into the embodied nature of human language and cognition as arising from and situated in the cultural environment. The papers in this collection all attempt to demonstrate, from different angles, the language-body connections that may reflect, to some extent, the mind-body

connections as manifested in the interaction between the body and the physical and cultural world. They study language in a systematic way as a window into the human mind. As a collection of papers that focuses on the study of Chinese with a comparative viewpoint on English, it sheds light on the bodily basis of human meaning and understanding in particular cultural contexts.

Table of contents

Preface

Section 1. Bodily experience in feeling and thinking

Chapter 1. Metaphorical expressions of anger and happiness in English and Chinese

Chapter 2. Body and emotion: Body parts in Chinese expression of emotion

Chapter 3. Synesthetic metaphor: A cognitive perspective

Chapter 4. Chinese metaphors of thinking

Section 2. External body parts in conceptualization

Chapter 5. The bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese: What do we do and mean with "hands"?

Chapter 6. Figurative uses of finger and palm in Chinese and English

Chapter 7. What does our face mean to us?

Chapter 8. The eyes for sight and mind

Chapter 9. Speech organs and linguistic activity and function

Section 3. Internal body organs in conceptualization

Chapter 10. Metaphor, body, and culture: The Chinese understanding of gallbladder and courage

Chapter 11. Heart and cognition in ancient Chinese philosophy

Chapter 12. The Chinese conceptualization of the heart and its cultural context: Implications for second language learning