Evidence from cognitive linguistics and conceptual metaphor theory strongly supports the claim that human body parts and actions frequently serve as source domains for mapping abstract concepts across various languages.
The claim posits that conceptual metaphors frequently map body parts to abstract domains across languages. Papers like [6] directly investigate the embodiment of predicative metaphors and conclude that human body concepts are preferred source domains for cross-domain mapping. Paper [0] tracks emotion metaphors over centuries, showing how bodily and experiential domains structure abstract emotional concepts. The retrieved literature offers direct support without any papers refuting the core claim, leading to a SUPPORTED verdict.