This site was produced by Maïa Ponsonnet, Linguist at The University of Western Australia, in concertation with […]
Metaphor
A flowing belly, a swollen nose, a burning throat… What states of your body do Australian Indigenous languages use to evoke emotions? What does it tell about the way we feel?
Metaphors & metonymies
Body part for emotion
Resistance
metaphors
Movement, posture
Generic metonymies
Somatic
metonymies
Destruction metaphors
Perception metaphors
Agent,
Patient
Experiencer metonymies
Behavioral
Access and
violence
Color