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Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs (Paperback)
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Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
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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.
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