Starting from Lakoff and Johnson's (1999) insights into the concept of “self” based on the
analysis of English data, this paper presents a preliminary study of the conceptualization of …

However, the subject has been slower to develop a research tradition in the East. For
example, the first edition of The Oxford handbook ofChinese psychology (Bond, 1996) did …

This study investigates the conceptualization of “THE HEART AS THE MIND” in Chinese. A
detailed analysis of the semantic element related to the “heart” is provided, with ample …

This paper aims to explore personhood constructs of the Thai community in comparison to
those of the Japanese community through heart-related terms. It attempts to take a linguistic …

Polysemy, or the association of two or more related meanings with a single linguistic form
(Taylor, 1995, p. 99), is ubiquitous in language and receives attention from many linguistic …

In this study I explore the bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese from the theoretical
perspective of cognitive semantics (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999; Johnson 1987; Lakoff …

This paper argues that the Chinese character system is a matter of conceptual metaphors
and the metaphors emerge from bodily experience. The paper follows the updated cognitive …

This chapter explores cultural conceptualisations of collective self-representation as phrases
and expressions in Chinese that indicate collective self positioning emerge in social …

The paper focuses on specific intuitions associated with mental concepts—especially with
the concept of the soul in Mandarin. The main objective is to seek the basic linguistic …

The purpose of this paper is to show that the metaphoric systems of the Self can be found in
English and Korean. Following Lakoff and his colleagues, it is shown that a person is …