Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs (Routledge Studies in Linguistics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138745308 ISBN 13: 9781138745308

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1138745308
• ISBN 13: 9781138745308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 158
• Editor: Peeters Bert