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

By Bert Peeters

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9781138745308, 9781315180670, 9781032093949
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1883090 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
158\159
Time added
2023-11-25 12:10:37

Description

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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