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

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 f...

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Weitere Verfasser: Peeters, Bert 1960- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Routledge 2019
Schriftenreihe:Routledge studies in linguistics
Routledge studies in linguistics 20
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Zusammenfassung: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 languagesdiffer from the Anglo mind
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ISBN:9781315180670
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