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 forsomeone, and another word forbody, 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) mindis 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. | Heart- And Soul-like Constructs Across Languages Cultures And Epochs by Bert Peeters, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters