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

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1032093943 ISBN 13 : 9781032093949

Editeur : Routledge, 2021

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032093943
• ISBN 13: 9781032093949
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Éditeur: Peeters Bert
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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