The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective : Culture, Body, and Language.
Title:
The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective : Culture, Body, and Language.
Author:
Yu, Ning.
ISBN:
9783110213348
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (444 pages)
Series:
Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; v.12
Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 1.1. Object and goal: Chinese concept of xin 'heart' -- 1.2. Heart, culture, and cognition -- 1.3. Body, society, and cognition -- 1.4. Body, mind, and culture -- 1.5. Cognitive semantic study of metaphor: Embodiment -- 1.6. Structure of the book -- 2.1. Introduction: Basic philosophical notions and constructs -- 2.2. The heart as the locus of the "mind" -- 2.3. The heart as the locus of moral sense -- 2.4. The heart as the locus of societal governance -- 2.5. Summary and discussion -- 3.1. Introduction: Basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine -- 3.2. The heart as the ruler of the body -- 3.3. The heart as the grand master of the internal organs -- 3.4. The heart or brain: Which one governs the spiritual light? -- 3.5. Summary and discussion -- 4.1. Introduction: A cognitive semantic study -- 4.2. The heart as a physical entity -- 4.3. The heart as the locus of one's inner self -- 4.4. The heart as the locus of mental life -- 4.5. The heart as the locus of emotional life -- 4.6. Summary and discussion -- 5.1. Introduction: Textual analysis -- 5.2. The heart in an essay on the "heart" -- 5.3. The heart in some poems on the "heart" -- 5.4. Summary and discussion -- 6.1. Introduction: An external viewpoint -- 6.2. Conceptions of the heart and brain in the West -- 6.3. A comparative perspective from English -- 6.4. Four humors and five elements -- 6.5. Summary and discussion -- 7.1. Looking back in perspective: Some highlights -- 7.2. Bringing into focus: Holism and dualism, heart and head -- 7.3. Looking beyond: Methodological issues -- 7.4. Emerging from it: Afterword -- Backmatter.
Abstract:
Honorary editor: René Dirven The series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) welcomes book proposals from any domain where the theoretical insights developed in Cognitive Linguistics (CL) have been (or could be) fruitfully applied. In the past thirty-five years, the CL movement has articulated a rich and satisfying view of language around a small number of foundational principles. The first one argues that language faculties do not constitute a separate module of cognition, but emerge as specialized uses of more general cognitive abilities. The second principle emphasises the symbolic function of language. The grammar of individual languages (including the lexicon, morphology, and syntax) can be exclusively described as a structured inventory of conventionalized symbolic units. The third principle states that meaning is equated with conceptualization. It is subjective, anthropomorphic, and crucially incorporates humans' experience with their bodies and the world around them. Finally, CL's Usage-Based conception anchors the meaning of linguistic expressions in the rich soil of their social usage. Consequently, usage-related issues such as frequency and entrenchment contribute to their semantic import. Taken together, these principles provide researchers in different academic fields with a powerful theoretical framework for the investigation of linguistic issues in the specific context of their particular disciplines. The primary focus of ACL is to serve as a high level forum for the result of these investigations.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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