Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- The Body in Language: An Introduction -- Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Patterns of Body Part Terms -- The Body in Language: Observations from Grammaticalization -- Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Ethiosemitic -- Extending Body-Part Terms in the Domain of Emotions -- Corporeal Incorporation and Extension in Dene Sųłiné (Athapaskan) Lexicalization -- The Cow's Body as the Source Domain of Philosophical Metaphors in the Ṛgveda: The Case of 'Udder' (ū́dhar) -- Conceptualization of the Body and Self -- Our Collocating Body Parts: Recurring Images of Self and Other in the Use of English Body-Part Terms -- Notions of SELF in Hausa -- Embodied Languages and Other Modalities -- Hausa Metaphors: Gestural Idioms Containing Body-Part Terms -- The Up/Down Orientation in Language and Music -- Case Studies from Africa -- Embodiment in Zande -- Body Parts We Live By in Language and Culture: The raaS 'head' and yidd 'hand' in Tunisian Arabic -- What Hands/Arms Can Say: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Swahili Body-Part Terms Mkono and Mikono -- Grammaticalization of Body-Part Terms in Mundabli -- Whomever It Concerns-Notions of Control, Initiation and Affectedness in Expressions of Body-Centred Activities in Mbembe -- Sexual, Impure, Vulgar: An Analysis of the Intimate Body-Part Terms in Egyptian Arabic -- Case Studies from Europe -- Selected Body-Part Terms as a Means for Conveying Abstract Concepts in The Economist: The Case of Head, Eye, Mouth and Nose -- Semiotic Conceptualization of the Human Body and the Case Study of Russian 'Navel' -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index.