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cognitive linguistics
comparative ethnopsychological frameworks
cross-cultural semantics
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ethnopsychology
Free Soul
Ian Hogbin
King Rama II
Kukrit Pramoj
linguistic anthropology
Mai Dai
Melanesian Anthropology
Melanesian Person
Mother's Mother's Mother
Mother’s Mother’s Mother
Newborn Chimpanzees
Norse Icelandic Literature
North Malaita
NSM
Person Singular Possessive Suffix
personhood constructs
Possessive Construction
Rattanakosin Period
semantic analysis methods
Semantic Explications
Semantic Molecules
Semantic Primes
Semantic Templates
Solomon Islands
Solomons Pijin
Sukhothai Period
Word Chai

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138745308
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Jan 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

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.
About

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.