Heart- and soul-like constructs across languages, cultures, and epochs

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Heart- and soul-like constructs across languages, cultures, and epochs

edited by Bert Peeters

(Routledge studies in linguistics, 20)(Routledge focus)

Routledge, 2019

  • : hbk

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Heart and soul like constructs across languages, cultures, and epochs

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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.

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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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