<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>Many languages from around Indonesia seem to have a three-way contrast in the conceptualisation of what makes a human:<div><br></div><div>* body</div><div>* centre-of-cognition</div><div>* centre-of-feeling/emotion</div><div><br></div><div>The centre of feeling is typically the liver; the centre-of-cognition is typically not the liver, but I haven't seen strong evidence for a generalisation about where different cultures place; it depends on the language.</div><div><br></div><div>-Mark</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 at 02:27, Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I’ve got a question from a colleague working in health psychology about the dichotomies such as “body vs. soul”, “body vs. mind” etc, as opposed to “person”, “human being etc.: how spread are these across the cultures and languages of the world?
I know that a number of languages lack a dedicated word for ‘body’, but not so much about the distinction between the physical and non-physical aspects of human beings.</div>
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<div>I would be grateful for any information / references / pointers. </div>
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<div>All the best,</div>
<div>Maria / Masha</div>
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<div>Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm<br>
Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm University<br>
106 91 Stockholm, Sweden<br>
tel.: +46-8-16 26 20<br>
<a href="mailto:tamm@ling.su.se" target="_blank">tamm@ling.su.se</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ling.su.se/tamm" target="_blank">http://www.ling.su.se/tamm</a><br>
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