Intends to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions, mental faculties, character traits, cultural values, and so on in various cultures, as manifested in their respective languages.

1. List of contributors; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Introduction: Embodiment via body parts (by Maalej, Zouheir A.); 4. Part 1. European perspectives; 5. The relevance of embodiment to lexical and collocational meaning: The case of prosopo 'face' in Modern Greek (by Marmaridou, Sophia); 6. Dynamic body parts in Estonian figurative descriptions of emotion (by Vainik, Ene); 7. Contrasting body parts: Metaphors and metonymies of mouth in Danish, English, and Spanish (by Nissen, Uwe Kjaer); 8. head and eye in German and Indonesian figurative uses (by Siahaan, Poppy); 9. Part 2. East Asian perspectives; 10. Speech organs and linguistic activity/function in Chinese (by Yu, Ning); 11. Inner and outer body parts: The case of hara 'belly' and koshi 'lower back' in Japanese (by Nagai, Tomokazu); 12. A cultural-linguistic look at Japanese 'eye' expressions (by Occhi, Debra J.); 13. Part 3. Middle Eastern and North African perspectives; 14. Conceptualizations of cheshm 'eye' in Persian (by Sharifian, Farzad); 15. Figurative dimensions of 3ayn 'eye' in Tunisian Arabic (by Maalej, Zouheir A.); 16. The apocalypse happens when the feet take the position of the head: Figurative uses of 'head' and 'feet' in Turkish (by Aksan, Mustafa); 17. Index