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

Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs By Bert Peeters

Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs by Bert Peeters


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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.

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

Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs by Bert Peeters

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.

About Bert Peeters

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.

Table of Contents



  1. Delving into Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs: Describing EPCs in NSM
    Bert Peeters


  2. Inochi and Tamashii: Incursions into Japanese Ethnopsychology
    Yuko Asano-Cavanagh




  3. Longgu: Conceptualizing the Human Person from the Inside Out
    Deborah Hill




  4. Tracing the Thai 'Heart': The Semantics of a Thai Ethnopsychological Construct
    Chavalin Svetanant




  5. Exploring Old Norse-Icelandic Personhood Constructs with the Natural Semantic Metalanguage
    Colin Mackenzie


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NLS9781032093949
9781032093949
1032093943
Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs by Bert Peeters
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-06-30
158
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