The Body in Language ― Comparative Studies of Linguistic Embodiment

The Body in Language provides theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication as well as on cognitive linguistics in general. Case studies discuss the embodiment in a wide range of languages and from diverse cultures on various continents.

Matthias Brenzinger, Ph.D. (1993), University of Cologne, holds a Mellon Research Chair and is Director of CALDi – Centre for African Language Diversity at the University of Cape Town. His publications are on Nilotic, Cushitic and Non-Bantu Click languages as well as on language endangerment in Africa and globally.Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Ph.D. (1995), University of Illinois, Dr. Hab. (2008), University of Warsaw, where she teaches linguistics and Swahili. She has published books and articles on Polish, Swahili and general linguistics, including Analogy: The Relation Between Lexicon and Grammar (2007).Contributors are Abinet Sime Gebreyes, Matthias Brenzinger, Elzbieta Gorska, Bernd Heine, Joanna Jurewicz, Lidia Khesed, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, Grigory Kreydlin, Zouheir Maalej, John Newman, Helma Pasch, Nina Pawlak, Svetlana Pereverzeva, Sally Rice, Doris Richter genannt Kemmermann, Tatiana Szczyglowska, Serena Talento, Rebecca Voll, Izabela Will, and Magdalena Zawrotna.