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

Buch | Softcover

158 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-09394-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	195 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-09394-3 / 1032093943
ISBN-13	978-1-032-09394-9 / 9781032093949
Zustand	Neuware