University of Warsaw Workshop, 8-9 December, 2017
Body Part Terms in Linguistic Usage: A Comparative and Typological Perspective
Friday, December 8th, 2017 (Ballroom Hall, Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace)
9.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.30 Opening Speeches (Dean of Oriental Faculty Prof. Piotr Taracha, Organizers)
10.30 – 11.15 Keynote Speaker
Ning Yu, Pennsylvania State University
Linguistic Embodiment in Linguistic Experience
11.15 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.00
Felix Ameka, Leiden University
“Heart die me.”: ethno-theories and linguistic embodiment of feelings
12.00 – 12.30
Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, University of Warsaw
Towards a semantic lexicon of body part terms
12.30 – 13.00
Mi-Hyun Kim, Université de Lorraine – Nancy
Contrastive Lexicology of Korean, French and English Body Element Nouns
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30
Judit Baranyiné Kóczy, Széchenyi István University
Keeping an eye on body parts: Conceptualizations of the ‘eye’ in Hungarian
14.30 – 15.00
Melike Baş, Amasya University
The metaphoric conceptualization of speech organs in Turkish
15.00 – 15.30
Sanja Kiš Žuvela, Zagreb University,
Body-Part Terms in Musical Discourse
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee Break
15.45 – 16.30 Keynote Speaker
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz/State University of Applied Sciences in Konin
Polysemy chains, embodiment and body parts
16.30 – 17.00
Awadh G. Baawaidhan, University of Lodz, Poland, Linguistic Analysis of Body part Metaphor Conceptualization from Cognitive Perspective
18.00 Dinner
Saturday, December 9th, 2017 (Ballroom Hall, Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace)
10.00 – 10.45 Keynote Speaker
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, University of Colorado
What the grammaticalization of ‘head’ reveals about the semantic structure of a language: A case study in four Chadic languages
10.45 – 11.15
Stéphane Robert, CNRS-LLACAN and INALCO
On the grammaticalization of the HEAD in Wolof: from reflexivity to topicality
11.15 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.00
Kasia Wojtylak, James Cook University
Grammaticalization of body part terms in Murui
12.00 – 12. 30
Kyung Eun Park, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Grammaticalization of Body Part Terms: Study on the grammaticalization of main body part terms in Thai in comparison to Korean
12.30 – 13.00
Ahmadu Shehu, University of Warsaw
Grammaticalization of body part terms in Fulfulde
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30
Marcin Kuczok, University of Silesia
Between the body and the soul: the semantics of English blood and Biblical Hebrew דָּ ם (dam)
14.30 – 15.00
Abinet Sime Gebreyes, Mekelle University
Semantics of Oromo Body-Part Terms
15.00 – 15.30
Izabela Will, University of Warsaw
Embodied conceptualization – relation between gesture and speech in Hausa
15.30 – 15. 45 Coffee Break
15.45 – 16.30 Keynote Speaker
Helma Pasch, University of Cologne
Body part metaphors as devices to form words, to create stylistic expressions and to shape grammar
General discussion