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Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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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Utgivningsdatum2019-01-21
Mått138 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Linguistics
Antal sidor148
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138745308

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Delving into Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs: Describing EPCs in NSMBert Peeters Inochi and Tamashii: Incursions into Japanese EthnopsychologyYuko Asano-Cavanagh Longgu: Conceptualizing the Human Person from the Inside OutDeborah Hill Tracing the Thai ‘Heart’: The Semantics of a Thai Ethnopsychological ConstructChavalin Svetanant Exploring Old Norse-Icelandic Personhood Constructs with the Natural Semantic MetalanguageColin Mackenzie