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HAND
Embodiment and Metaphorical and Metonymic Expressions in
Kashika: Bhojpuri Spoken in Varanasi

Dr. Neelam Yadav, NET, Ph.D., D.Litt. and
Dr. Ashutosh Kumar NET (JRF), Ph.D.

Abstract

The present paper delineates a systematic analysis of metonymic and metaphoric expression of body part term hand in Bhojpuri in the light of relevant linguistics evidence in present day Bhojpuri in folk songs/ literature / movies or in colloquial language spoken by the Bhojpuri people that reveal the Bhojpuri conceptualization of hand as the faculty of cognition.

Keywords: Conceptualization, Hand, Cognitive, Bhojpuri, Metaphor, Metonymy

Introduction and Literature Review

It is rightly considered by the scholars from cognitive point of view that: “our construal of reality is likely to be mediated in large measure by the nature of our bodies” (Evans, Green 2006:45).

“The concepts we have access to and the nature of the „reality" we think and talk about are a function of our embodiment: we can only talk about what we can perceive and conceive, and the things that we can perceive and conceive derive from embodied experience” (Evans, Green 2006:46).

The embodiment hypothesis is crucially associated with the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) introduced in Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and further elaborated in a rich bibliography including most notably Johnson (1987), Lakoff and Johnson (1999). Within the theory of Conceptual Metaphor, the central idea is that metaphors, far from being purely linguistic devices, are conceptual in nature and grounded in bodily experience. Being conceptual in nature means that they are constitutive of cognition and being grounded in bodily experience implies that the body is a potentially universal source domain for structuring abstract concepts.

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Dr. Neelam Yadav, NET, Ph.D., D.Litt.
Department of Linguistics, K.M.I.
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra-282005
dr.neelam2012.yadav@gmail.com

Dr. Ashutosh Kumar, NET (JRF), Ph.D.
Department of Evening Studies
Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla-171001
maadhav.ashutosh@yahoo.co.in
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