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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.
Sommario
- 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
Info autore
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.
Riassunto
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.
