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

ISBN-13: 9781032093949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 158 str.

Bert Peeters

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Delving into Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs: Describing EPCs in NSM
   Bert Peeters








2. Inochi and Tamashii: Incursions into Japanese Ethnopsychology
   Yuko Asano-Cavanagh











3. Longgu: Conceptualizing the Human Person from the Inside Out
   Deborah Hill











4. Tracing the Thai ‘Heart’: The Semantics of a Thai Ethnopsychological Construct
   Chavalin Svetanant











5. Exploring Old Norse-Icelandic Personhood Constructs with the Natural Semantic Metalanguage
   Colin Mackenzie

O autorze

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.