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

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Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs is written by Bert Peeters and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351720031 (ISBN 10) and 9781351720038 (ISBN 13).

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.