Heart- and soul-like constructs across languages, cultures, and epochs
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Heart- and soul-like constructs across languages, cultures, and epochs
(Routledge studies in linguistics, 20)
Routledge, 2019
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Heart and soul like constructs across languages, cultures, and epochs
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  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
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  Wakayama
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  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
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  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
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  Okinawa
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All languages and cultures appear to have one or more "mind-like" constructs that supplement the human body. Linguistic evidence suggests they all have a word for someone, and another word for body, but that doesn't mean that whatever else makes up a human being (i.e. someone) apart from the body is the same everywhere. Nonetheless, the (Anglo) mind is often reified and thought of in universal terms. This volume adds to the literature that denounces such reification. It looks at Japanese, Longgu (an Oceanic language), Thai, and Old Norse-Icelandic, spelling out, in a culturally neutral Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), how the "mind-like" constructs in these languages differ from the Anglo mind.
Table of Contents
Delving into Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs: Describing EPCs in NSM
Bert Peeters
Inochi and Tamashii: Incursions into Japanese Ethnopsychology
Yuko Asano-Cavanagh
Longgu: Conceptualizing the Human Person from the Inside Out
Deborah Hill
Tracing the Thai 'Heart': The Semantics of a Thai Ethnopsychological Construct
Chavalin Svetanant
Exploring Old Norse-Icelandic Personhood Constructs with the Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Colin Mackenzie
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