ABSTRACT
Embodiment as a multidisciplinary theoretical construct in nature is becoming a hot topic in various disciplines such as cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and linguistics as well. It is also the basis on which the cognitive linguistics enterprise is built. Cognitive Linguistics assumes that language as part of cognition is not distinguished from general cognition. Therefore, language is also embodied given that general cognition is found to be embodied. This chapter examines what cognitive linguistic research has revealed about the embodiment of language from different aspects including conceptualization underlying language, language processing, language development, and language change.
