Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs Hardback
Edited by Bert Peeters
Part of the Routledge Studies in Linguistics series
Hardback
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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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:148 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/01/2019
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- ISBN:9781138745308
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:148 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:21/01/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138745308
