Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs
Author:   Bert Peeters
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138745308


Pages:   148
Publication Date:   21 January 2019
Format:   Hardback
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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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Author:   Bert Peeters
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138745308


ISBN 10:   1138745308
Pages:   148
Publication Date:   21 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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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Bert Peeters is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra; an Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane; and editor of Semantic primes and universal grammar (2006) and Language and cultural values: adventures in applied ethnolinguistics (2015). His research interests are French linguistics and Natural Semantic Metalanguage.

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