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

<p>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 <i>someone</i>, and another word for <i>body</i>, 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<i> </i>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.</p> <ol> <li>Delving into Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs: Describing EPCs in NSM<br><i>Bert Peeters</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Inochi and <em>Tamashii</em>: Incursions into Japanese Ethnopsychology<br><i>Yuko Asano-Cavanagh </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Longgu: Conceptualizing the Human Person from the Inside Out<br><i>Deborah Hill</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Tracing the Thai ‘Heart’: The Semantics of a Thai Ethnopsychological Construct<br><i>Chavalin Svetanant </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Exploring Old Norse-Icelandic Personhood Constructs with the Natural Semantic Metalanguage<br><i>Colin Mackenzie</i> </li> </ol>