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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.

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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.
Autorenporträt
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, Elżbieta Górska, 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.