TY - BOOK
T1 - Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs
AU - Peeters, Bert
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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 doesnt 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 "mindlike" constructs in these languages differ from the Anglo mind.
AB - 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 doesnt 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 "mindlike" constructs in these languages differ from the Anglo mind.
M3 - Edited Book
SN - 978-1-315-18067-0
VL - 1
T3 - Routledge Studies in Linguistics
BT - Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - United States
ER -