| 1 Unifying the body, mind and culture | 9 |
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| References | 13 |
| Part I: The mind and the body | 15 |
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| 2 Different bodies, different minds: The body-specificity of language and thought | 17 |
| Introduction | 17 |
| Body-specificity of action language and motor imagery | 18 |
| Imagined actions | 19 |
| Motor action and verb meaning | 19 |
| Body-specificity of emotion | 20 |
| Choosing sides | 20 |
| How using your hands can change your mind | 21 |
| Motivation and motor action | 23 |
| Conclusions and future directions | 23 |
| Acknowledgments | 24 |
| References | 24 |
| 3 Body and mind in Euskera: Contrasting dialogic and monologic subjectivities | 27 |
| Introduction: Theoretical considerations | 27 |
| The concept of self | 34 |
| The Basque concept gogo | 36 |
| The construal of two common physical sensations: hunger and sleepiness | 40 |
| Further evidence of dialogic subjectivity | 51 |
| Conclusions | 54 |
| References | 55 |
| 4 The body in anatomy: Looking at head for the mind-body link in Chinese | 61 |
| Introduction | 61 |
| A look at head through a lexical scan | 63 |
| A look at “head” through a decompositional analysis — | 74 |
| Conclusions | 78 |
| Acknowledgments | 79 |
| References | 79 |
| Part II: Cognition and perception | 83 |
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| 5 Perceptual landscapes from the perspective of cultures and genres | 85 |
| Introduction | 85 |
| Perceptual landscapes in architectural reviews | 87 |
| Perceptual landscapes in wine reviews — | 100 |
| The perceptual landscapes of architecture and wine in summary | 111 |
| Acknowledgments | 113 |
| References | 113 |
| 6 The power of the senses and the role of culture in metaphor and language | 117 |
| Introduction | 117 |
| Sense perception and conceptual metaphors in Cognitive Linguistics | 118 |
| Some caveats: Motivation, entrenchment, and distribution | 122 |
| Conclusions | 136 |
| Acknowledgments | 137 |
| References | 138 |
| 7 Vision and conceptualization in ancient Egyptian art | 143 |
| Introduction | 143 |
| Principles of ancient Egyptian art | 144 |
| Evaluations of the principles of ancient Egyptian art | 148 |
| Perspectives from the philosophy of perception | 151 |
| The conceptual nature of ancient Egyptian art | 158 |
| Mind, body and vision: Remarks by way of conclusion | 170 |
| References | 172 |
| 8 One man’s cheese is another man’s music: Synaesthesia and the bridging of cultural differences in the language of sensory perception | 177 |
| Introduction | 177 |
| Arguing with the senses | 179 |
| One rat’s cheese is another rat’s fireworks | 186 |
| Banquets of innocence and experience | 191 |
| Conclusion | 197 |
| Acknowledgements | 197 |
| References | 198 |
| Part III: Imagination and (e)motion | 201 |
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| 9 Embodied emotions in medieval English language and visual arts | 203 |
| Introduction | 203 |
| Methodology and data | 205 |
| The embodiment of fear expressions in Old English | 206 |
| The embodiment of fear in the Bayeaux Tapestry | 213 |
| Interpreting pictorial signals of fear | 221 |
| Results and discussion | 222 |
| References | 225 |
| 10 Moving across metaphorical space over developmental time | 229 |
| Introduction | 229 |
| How robust is the structuring of abstracts concepts in terms of spatial motion? | 231 |
| How early do children think and talk about abstract concepts in terms of spatial motion? | 236 |
| What explains developmental changes in children’s metaphorical abilities? | 245 |
| Discussion | 251 |
| References | 254 |
| 11 Conceptualisations of ruh ‘spirit/soul’ and jesm ‘body’ in Persian: A Sufi perspective | 259 |
| Introduction | 259 |
| Jesm and ruh in Persian | 260 |
| Conceptualizations of the body in Sufism | 261 |
| Conceptualizations of the Sufi spiritual path | 263 |
| Neoplatonism and Sufism | 268 |
| Concluding remarks | 270 |
| References | 271 |
| 12 Borobudur and Chartres: Religious spaces as performative real-space blends | 273 |
| The power of material anchors in performativity | 273 |
| Spatial alignment with the universe | 279 |
| Structural blends and alignments in the buildings | 287 |
| Moving through sacred spaces | 290 |
| Conclusions | 296 |
| Acknowledgments | 297 |
| References | 298 |
| 13 Postscript to Sensuous Cognition: The language of the senses | 301 |
| References | 307 |
| Subject Index | 309 |
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