TY - CHAP
T1 - Our collocating body parts
T2 - recurring images of self and other in the use of English body-part terms
AU - Newman, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This study adopts a corpus-based approach to investigate body-part terms in English. The British National Corpus (BNC) was searched using Sketch Engine for collocates of a sample of English body-part terms: hand(s), finger(s), arm(s). The items of interest in this particular study are nominal collocates of these search terms where the collocates themselves are body-part terms, as in Rachel ran her fingers through her hair, where hair occurs as a collocate of the search term fingers. The corpus-based approach adopted here leads to an expanded view of the semantic space relevant to understanding how body-part terms interrelate beyond what can be established through purely linguistic considerations of polysemy and diachronic change. Our approach also leads to a better appreciation of the role of self vs. other in the usage of body-part terms.
AB - This study adopts a corpus-based approach to investigate body-part terms in English. The British National Corpus (BNC) was searched using Sketch Engine for collocates of a sample of English body-part terms: hand(s), finger(s), arm(s). The items of interest in this particular study are nominal collocates of these search terms where the collocates themselves are body-part terms, as in Rachel ran her fingers through her hair, where hair occurs as a collocate of the search term fingers. The corpus-based approach adopted here leads to an expanded view of the semantic space relevant to understanding how body-part terms interrelate beyond what can be established through purely linguistic considerations of polysemy and diachronic change. Our approach also leads to a better appreciation of the role of self vs. other in the usage of body-part terms.
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M3 - Chapter (Book)
AN - SCOPUS:84978312457
T3 - Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
SP - 119
EP - 139
BT - The Body in Language
A2 - Brenzinger, Matthias
A2 - Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona
PB - Brill
ER -