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Embodiment in Language (II)

Food, Emotion and Beyond

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Editors:
  1. Shelley Ching-yu Depner

    1. Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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  • Compiles cross-cultural research using life-form fixed expressions by taking cognitive and semantic point of views
  • Provides useful strategies for language learning, researching and the understanding of social factors that influence human behavior
  • Discusses the various aspects that could be hidden behind life-form fixed expressions, such as food names and taboos
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Shelley Ching-yu Depner
    Pages 1-3

  3. Embodiment and Food

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Food Metaphors in Taiwan Hakka

      • Cathy Ya-hua Lin, Shelley Ching-yu Depner
      Pages 7-20

    3. Pragmatic Functions of Hakka Proverbs: Humor, Praise and Food

      • Tsung-shueng Huang, Shelley Ching-yu Depner
      Pages 21-36

    4. Fruit and Some Plant Vehicles in Mandarin Chinese, English and German

      • Shelley Ching-yu Depner
      Pages 37-61

  4. Embodiment and Emotion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. How Do Men and Women Express Emotion Differently

      • Mei-rong Wang, Shelley Ching-yu Depner
      Pages 65-73

    3. Taboos in Animal Fixed Expressions in Mandarin Chinese

      • Ada Ya-ying Yang, Shelley Ching-yu Depner
      Pages 75-92

    4. Euphemisms in Animal-Fixed Expressions in Mandarin Chinese

      • Ada Ya-ying Yang, Shelley Ching-yu Depner
      Pages 93-108

  5. Embodiment in Broader Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-110
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    2. The Punchlines of Jokes About Women in Italian, English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese

      • Noemi Lovo, Shelley Ching-yu Depner
      Pages 111-133

    3. Dragon and Phoenix Metaphors in Political and Economic Discourse

      • Peggy Wei-lun Tsai, Shelley Ching-yu Depner
      Pages 135-160

    4. Prototype Effects and Cultural Implications of Hakka Proverbs

      • Tsung-shueng Huang, Shelley Ching-yu Depner
      Pages 161-175

    5. How Do Taiwanese Second-Language Learners Learn English Body Part Metonymy

      • Eric M. Scott, Shelley Ching-yu Depner
      Pages 177-193

    6. Conclusion

      • Shelley Ching-yu Depner
      Pages 195-197

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 199-216
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About this book

This book provides useful strategies for language learning, researching and the understanding of social factors that influence human behavior. It offers an account of how we use human, animal and plant fixed expressions every day and the cultural aspects hidden behind them. These fixed expressions include various linguistic vehicles, such as fruit, jokes and taboos that are related to speakers’ use in the real world. The linguistic research in Mandarin Chinese, Hakka, German and English furthers our understanding of the cultural value and model of cognition embedded in life-form embodiment languages.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Shelley Ching-yu Depner

About the editor

Shelley Ching-yu Depner is a professor at Department of Foreign Languages and Literature in National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. She has a PhD in Linguistics from Tübingen University, Germany in 2001. The focus of her research is a cross-cultural comparison of the cognitive semantics and sociolinguistics of Mandarin Chinese and German.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Embodiment in Language (II)

  • Book Subtitle: Food, Emotion and Beyond

  • Editors: Shelley Ching-yu Depner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1799-5

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1797-1Published: 17 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9449-1Published: 29 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1799-5Published: 11 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 216

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Language Education

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