Abstract This article describes how particular emotions map figuratively onto body parts in Australian Indigenous languages. While most languages use expressions involving to talk about emotions—as “broken‐hearted,” for instance—Australian do it a remarkable extent. After identifying the figurative tropes—metaphors and metonymies—that recur frequently such across continent, discusses specific b...

Abstract This paper reports findings from an arts-based intra-communal peacebuilding programme in North-Central Rakhine State (Myanmar), 2016–2018, on the role metaphors—embedded arts processes and artefacts—played facilitating reported shifts conflict-related attitudes behaviours. An established body of literature shows central importance metaphor to human cognition, particularly where it unde...