.45-9.15

Registration/coffee (Sala Złota)

9.15-9.45

Conference opening address (Sala Senatu)

Włodzimierz Lengauer, Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations

Jolanta Sierakowska-Dyndo, Dean of the Oriental Faculty

Nina Pawlak, Head of the Department of African Languages and Cultures

Matthias Brenzinger, Iwona Kraska-Szlenk

Plenary session (Sala Senatu)

Chair: Matthias Brenzinger

9.45-10.3

Alexandra Aikhenvald

James Cook University

Mind, body and spirit: on meanings and functions of body part terms in the languages of the Sepik area, Papua New Guinea

10.30-11.1

Bernd Heine

University of Cologne

The human body as template in the evolution of grammar

11.15-11.30

Coffee break (Sala Złota)

Session 1: Sala Senatu

Chair: Nina Pawlak

Session 2: Sala im. Brudzińskiego

Chair: Hanna Rubinkowska-Anioł

11.30-11.55

Aliyu Mu’azu. Bayero University Kano; Body Language as a Means of Social Dialect in Hausa

Grigory E. Kreydlin, Svetlana I.Pereverzeva, Russian State University For The Humanities; Semiotic conceptualization of human body: types of somatic objects and their names in Russian

1.55-12.20

Christa König. University of Frankfurt; Body, emotion, and sensation in! Xun

Agnieszka Będkowska-Kopczyk. University of Bielsko-Biala; The folk theory of embodied soul in Slavic

12.20-12.45

Matthias Brenzinger. University of Cologne; Obligatory gestures in Khwe

Sven Sellmer. Adam Mickiewicz University; Body, felt body, metaphor  –  three levels of  “body language ”

12.45-13.10

Anne-Maria Fehn. University of Cologne; The body in motion: Gesture-in-speech in Ts’ixa

Joanna Jurewicz. Uniwersytet Warszawski; The cow’s and the horse’s body as the source domain of philosophical metaphors in the Rigveda

3.10-14.30

Lunch break

Session 1: Sala Senatu

Chair: Matthias Brenzinger

Session 2: Sala im. Brudzińskiego

Chair: Joanna Jurewicz

4.30-14.55

Kithaka wa Mberia. University of Nairobi; On the Linguistics of Body Terms In Sabaki Languages

Urszula Zaliwska-Okrutna, University of Warsaw; Body, language and identity

14.55-15.20

Iwona Kraska-Szlenk. University of Warsaw; Semantic extensions of body part terms: a corpus-based approach

Veronika Szelid, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. The Embodiment of ’Sacred Love’ in American Church Songs – A Cognitive Linguistic Approach

15.20-15.45

Serena Talento. Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale; What hands/arms can say: a corpus-based analysis of the swahili terms mkonoand mikono

Anna Fornalczyk, Aleksandra Biela-Wołońciej. University of Warsaw; Conceptualisation of Emotions With Reference to the Body on the Examples of Children’s Literature

15.45-16.10

Laura Łykowska, Beata Wójtowicz, University of Warsaw; Language Sensitivity To Terms denoting Parts of the Body

Agnieszka Kulisz. UMCS Lublin. The linguistic and cultural image of the concept of 'hand' in the Polish folk language

16.10-16.25

Coffee break

Session 1: Sala Senatu

Chair: Matthias Brenzinger

Session 2: Sala im. Brudzińskiego

Chair: Joanna Jurewicz

16.25-16.50

Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor. University of Nairobi; Body Parts in Dholuo: Meaning and Associated Metaphors

Elżbieta Górska. University of Warsaw; The up/down orientation in language and music

16.50-17.15

Marilena Thanassoula. University of Cologne; Body concept and the polysemy of the verbs for perception exemplified in East African Bantu languages (Great Lakes Region)

Wiesna Mond-Kozłowska. Ignatianum, Cracow;
Symbolical nature of the body gesture or aesthetics of ineffable

17.15-17.40

Helma Pasch, University of Cologne, Body parts in Zande

Natalija Panić  & Vesna Polovina. University of Belgrade; Body part terms and terms for gestures in the study of nonverbal communication: Serbian vs. English

17.40-18.05

Doris Richter genannt Kemmermann. University of Cologne, Body and body parts in Mbembe

Joanna Suska, University of Warsaw, Ayn 'eye' in Arabic: expressing emotional concepts through their embodiment and the use of gestures involving eyes in communication