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The Body in Language: Lexicon, Metaphor, Grammar and Culture
October, 2011 - The Department of African Studies in cooperation with the University of Cologne organised a Conference The Body in Language: Lexicon, Metaphor, Grammar and Culture that took place at the University of Warsaw on October 21-22. The conference welcomed over 60 participants from around the world. The plenary talks were given by the following distinguished speakers: Alexandra Aikhenvald from James Cook University, Bernd Heine from the University of Cologne and Maarten Mous from the University of Leiden.
Programme of the conference.
Lexicon, Metaphor, Grammar and Culture
University of Warsaw (Pałac Kazimierzowski), 21-22 October 2011
Friday 21st October, 2011
| 8.45-9.15 | 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 | |
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| 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) | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 mkono and 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 | |
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| 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; |
| 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 |
Saturday, 22nd October, 2011
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| Plenary session (Sala Senatu) Chair: Izabela Will | |
| 9.00-9.45 | Maarten Mous University of Leiden Body-centered activities and their lexicalisation in African languages | |
| 9.45-10.00 | Coffee break | |
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| Session 1: Sala Senatu Chair: Izabela Will | Session 2: Sala im. Brudzińskiego Chair: Elżbieta Górska |
| 10.00-10.25 | Nina Pawlak. University of Warsaw; Notions for SELF in Hausa
| Sally Rice. University of Alberta; Corporeal incorporation and extension in Dene Sųłiné (Athapaskan) lexicalization |
| 10.25-10.50 | Tijjani Shehu Almajir. Bayero University, Kano; The polysemy of Body-Part Terms in Hausa | John Newman. University of Alberta; Our collocating body parts: recurring images of Self and Other in body part usage |
| 10.50-11.15 | Hafizu Miko Yakasai. Bayero University Kano; The Role of Body in the Negative and Emphatic Constructions in Hausa | Arnaud Richard. Université Montpellier; Mela naming: a concept to understand the discursive categorisation process according to the skin color |
| 11.15-11.40 | Olga Frąckiewicz, Miłosz Wrzałek and Jakub Kodłubaj, University of Warsaw, Body part terms in Hausa common nouns | Eric Perera & Sylvain Rouanet. Laboratoire SantESiH Staps Montpellier; The speech of the body in the manners to make some body-building in France: Of the body hatch in the body health |
| 11.40-11.55 | Coffee break | |
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| Session 1: Sala Senatu Chair: Izabela Will | Session 2: Sala im. Brudzińskiego Chair: Elżbieta Górska |
| 11.55-12.20 | Philippe Cassuto, Victor Porkhomovsky, Université de Provence, Russian Academy of Sciences; Body part terms in Hausa translations of the Bible | Junichi Toyota. Lund University /University of Belgrade; Bodily sense of proximity to the expression of time |
| 12.20-12.45 | Ibrahim G. Satatima. Bayero Univ. Kano; Body Terms as Key Elements to Hyperbole and Satirical Devices as Exemplified by Hausa Poets | Barbara Gryczan. University of Warsaw; Grammaticalization of body parts yad ‘hand’ and pane ‘face’ in Hebrew |
| 12.45-13.10 | Segio Baldi, Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Body parts in Hausa proverbs and ideophones | Conor Snoek. University of Alberta; Semantic differences in body-part, effluvia, and ephemera terms in Athapaskan |
| 13.10-14.30 | Lunch break | |
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| Session 1: Sala Senatu Chair: Hafizu Miko Yakasai | Session 2: Sala im. Brudzińskiego Chair: Beata Wójtowicz |
| 14.30-14.55 | Jibril Shu’aibu Adamu. Bayero University Kano; The New Trends of Body Language in Communication Among Youths In Hausa Culture | Tatiana Szczygłowska. University of Bielsko-Biała; Selected body part terms as a means for conveying abstract concepts in The Economist. The case of head, eye, mouth and nose |
| 14.55-15.20 | Izabela Will, University of Warsaw; Expressions describing gestures as a source of metaphors in Hausa | Robert Blagoni, Kristina Jordan. University of Zadar; Contrastive Croatian-Italian phraseology with the somatism eye: cultural implications |
| 15.20-15.45 | Yakubu Magaji Azare. Bayero University, Kano; The biological metaphor of face communication in Hausa Language | Grigory Kreydlin, Lidia Khesed. The Russian State University For The Humanities; Body parts in Russian and Body Russian: navel |
| 15.45-16.10 | Hanna Rubinkowska-Anioł. University of Warsaw; The power of gestures or gestures of power: the message of Haile Sillasie I | Magdalena Zawrotna, Jagiellonian University; Sexual, impure, vulgar: An analysis of the intimate body part terms in Egyptian Arabic |
| 16.10-16.25 | Coffee break | |
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| Session 1: Sala Senatu Chair: Hafizu Miko Yakasai | Session 2: Sala im. Brudzińskiego Chair: Beata Wójtowicz |
| 16.25-16.50 | Abinet Sime Gebreyes. Addis Ababa University; Grammaticalization of Body Part Terms in Ethiosemitic | Magdalena Olejarnik, Jagiellonian University, An overview of body movement predicates in Swahili |
| 16.50-17.15 | Ewa Wołk. University of Warsaw; The heart as a source of metaphorical expressions in Amharic | Rebecca Voll. University of Leiden; Word Order Variation in Possessive Constructions Involving Body parts in Mundabli (Yemne-Kimbi, former Western Beboid) – a Case of Possessor Raising? |
| 17.15-17.40 | Natalia Malenko; The Concept of HEART in Proverbs | Susanne Vejdemo. The semantically extended uses of body temperature – report on a small cross-linguistic survey |
| 17.40-18.05 | Chalermchai Chaichompoo. Chiang Mai Rajabhat University; Conceptualization of the word “heart” in the Thai language | Renate Raffelsiefen, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim; Reference to the body in attributive adjective constructions |
Concluding remarks (Sala Senatu)