Embodiment via Body Parts
Part of series Embodied mind/perception
This study needs to be done everywhere in all cultures, it seems to me. H.W. Wolff started it for the Hebrew Bible (Anthropology of the OT), and Lakoff has shown the way in English with conceptual metaphors and embodied cognition, but so much more could be done just with body parts. I'm thinking encyclopedias.
Extracted text from https://www.academia.edu/2244960/Body_Idioms_and_the_Psalms:
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Andy, I finally got around to looking at your article. Some time ago I started a couple of research projects on this topic, but have not gotten very far. Here are some notes I have put together which fit nicely with your article: https://map.bloomfire.com/posts/777668-body-parts-as-metaphors