Life Science Journal 2014;11(12s) http://www.lifesciencesite.com http://www.lifesciencesite.com lifesciencej@gmail.com 517 Biopolitics and the body through idiomatic prism Natalya Zavyalova Ural Federal University (UrFU),Mira street, 19, Ekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation Abstract. The focus of the article is centered on society culture literacy through the prism of communication. I attempt to carry out a comparative analysis of the East and the West body perception strategies with the help of the on-line national languages’ corpuses. Societies are described through their attitude to labor, expressed in the idioms with a ‘body’ component. With the help of electronic linguistic corpuses (Corpus of the Internet and business Chinese), KOTONOHA (Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese), BNC (British National Corpus), COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) I analyze body stereotypes on the basis of idiom frequency indexes. The results of these findings are relevant to multicultural societies, migration adaptation practices and global business development. The research results have been processed into a database, marked with the Rospatent Certificate № 2013620397, dated March,13 2013. [Zavyalova N. Biopolitics and the body through idiomatic prism. Life Sci J 2014;11(12s):517-520] (ISSN:1097- 8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 111 Keywords: body, society, communication, idiom, culture, culture literacy, stereotype, biopolitics Introduction The problem of biopolitics is multifarious and complex. The term ‘biopolitics’ was introduced by Michel Foucault [1] to cover the ever increasing connection between the human body and its cultural contexs. In modern reality this term is acquiring new meanings and connotations. ‘One of the most frequently cited an effect of progress over the last 50 years has been the improvement in knowledge about the human body - an improvement which has been due mainly to technological innovation in medical and biological sciences’ [2]. Modern global community members are pressed with new challenges of body perception, resulting from biotechnological progress in deciphering the human genome, which makes the body more ‘readable’. These new dimensions, coupled with culture differences, come to the forefront in the field of modern biopolitics. Fig. 1 of Serelex graph [3] effectively demonstrates various implications of ‘body’ inclusion in countless spheres of modern activities. Figure 1. Serelex semantic proximity graph for the lexeme “Body” [4] The subject matter of my research is focused around the following question: how far are human bodies talked about differently in different cultures, where do such differences stem from, and how can they be described, analyzed, possibly modified or put to practical use? The idea of describing bodies through narratives is linguistically and culturally bound. As S. Benhabib has masterfully formulated: ‘To be and to become a self is to insert oneself into webs of interlocution’ [5]. In my research I make an attempt to analyze culture representations of body through the prism of idioms, which is conducive to understanding of the ‘nation self’. Material and methods With the help of on-line electronic linguistic corpuses [6], KOTONOHA [7], BNC [8], COCA [9] I calculated idioms’ frequency indexes, which are suggestive of body culture in China, Japan, Great Britain and North America. KOTONOHA on-line Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese submits the contexts of a considerable time period between 1880 to 2008. This on-line corpus was organized by Japanese ministry of education, sport and tourism in collaboration with national scholars of Japanese. Each Japanese idiom is given with an index of frequency and the years of usage in writing. There is not a clear- cut distinction between the Internet communication and other types of communication as in Chinese corpus, but all idioms used in 2000-2008 were mentioned in Yahoo blogs. For analyzing Chinese idioms frequencies I used Chinese corpus at Leeds University. I provided each idiom with a frequency index, illustrating its