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

Bert Peeters

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Routledge
21 January 2019

Sociolinguistics; Grammar, syntax

Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

"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."

Edited by: Bert Peeters
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138745308
ISBN 10: 1138745308
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 21 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.