New PDF release: The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective: Culture, Body,

By Ning Yu

ISBN-10: 3110205165

ISBN-13: 9783110205169

This booklet is a cognitive semantic examine of the chinese language conceptualization of the guts, usually noticeable because the valuable school of cognition. The chinese language note xin, which basically denotes the guts organ, covers the meanings of either "heart" and "mind" as understood in English, which upholds a heart-head dichotomy. not like the Western dualist view, chinese language takes on a extra holistic view that sees the guts because the heart of either feelings and notion. The distinction characterizes cultural traditions that experience built diverse conceptualizations of individual, self, and agent of cognition.

The suggestion of "heart" lies on the middle of chinese language suggestion and medication, and its value to chinese language tradition is commonly manifested within the chinese. Diachronically, this ebook lines the roots of its notion in historical chinese language philosophy and standard chinese language medication. alongside the synchronic size, it not just makes a scientific research of conventionalized expressions that replicate the underlying cultural versions and conceptualizations, in addition to underlying conceptual metaphors and metonymies, but in addition makes an attempt a textual research of an essay and a few poems for his or her metaphoric and metonymic photos and imports contributing to the cultural versions and conceptualizations. It additionally takes up a comparative point of view that sheds mild on similarities and modifications among Western and chinese language cultures within the figuring out of the center, mind, physique, brain, self, and individual.

The publication contributes to the knowledge of the embodied nature of human cognition positioned in its cultural context, and the connection among language, tradition, and cognition.

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