Compared with other common nouns, human body words (hereinafter referred to as HBWs) are strikingly polysemous. Cognitive studies of the polysemy of HBWs have o

Anthropolinguistics is a core topic of the majority of books on linguistics today. Still there are different approaches to word study within this field. This bo

About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in

This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, an

One of the central themes in cognitive linguistics is the uniquely human development of some higher potential called the "mind" and, more particularly, the inte