1st Edition
Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs
Edited By Bert Peeters
Copyright 2019
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. Nonetheless, the (Anglo) mind is often reified and thought of in... Read more
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Biography
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.
