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>