The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective ：Culture, Body, and Language ( Applications of Cognitive Linguistics )

Publication subTitle ：Culture, Body, and Language

Publication series ：Applications of Cognitive Linguistics

Author： Ning Yu  

Publisher： De Gruyter Mouton‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9783110213348

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110205169

Subject： H13 semantic, lexical, semantic (exegesis)

Keyword： Cognitive linguistics Chinese (language)

Language： ENG

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This book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The concept of HEART, encoded in the word xin, lies at the core of Chinese thought and medicine, and its importance to Chinese culture is extensively manifested in the Chinese language. The study explores this important concept and its cultural models along both diachronic and synchronic dimensions and with a cross-cultural perspective.

Chapter

Frontmatter

pp.：  1 – 1

Table of contents

pp.：  1 – 7

1.1. Object and goal: Chinese concept of xin ‘heart’

pp.：  7 – 12

1.2. Heart, culture, and cognition

pp.：  12 – 18

1.3. Body, society, and cognition

pp.：  18 – 25

1.4. Body, mind, and culture

pp.：  25 – 33

1.5. Cognitive semantic study of metaphor: Embodiment

pp.：  33 – 43

1.6. Structure of the book

pp.：  43 – 50

2.1. Introduction: Basic philosophical notions and constructs

pp.：  50 – 53

2.2. The heart as the locus of the “mind”

pp.：  53 – 62

2.3. The heart as the locus of moral sense

pp.：  62 – 81

2.4. The heart as the locus of societal governance

pp.：  81 – 101

2.5. Summary and discussion

pp.：  101 – 108

3.1. Introduction: Basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine

pp.：  108 – 125

3.2. The heart as the ruler of the body

pp.：  125 – 133

3.3. The heart as the grand master of the internal organs

pp.：  133 – 145

3.4. The heart or brain: Which one governs the spiritual light?

pp.：  145 – 155

3.5. Summary and discussion

pp.：  155 – 161

4.1. Introduction: A cognitive semantic study

pp.：  161 – 174

4.2. The heart as a physical entity

pp.：  174 – 182

4.3. The heart as the locus of one’s inner self

pp.：  182 – 207

4.4. The heart as the locus of mental life

pp.：  207 – 236

4.5. The heart as the locus of emotional life

pp.：  236 – 266

4.6. Summary and discussion

pp.：  266 – 305

5.1. Introduction: Textual analysis

pp.：  305 – 324

5.2. The heart in an essay on the “heart”

pp.：  324 – 327

5.3. The heart in some poems on the “heart”

pp.：  327 – 342

5.4. Summary and discussion

pp.：  342 – 363

6.1. Introduction: An external viewpoint

pp.：  363 – 368

6.2. Conceptions of the heart and brain in the West

pp.：  368 – 370

6.3. A comparative perspective from English

pp.：  370 – 386

6.4. Four humors and five elements

pp.：  386 – 395

6.5. Summary and discussion

pp.：  395 – 402

7.1. Looking back in perspective: Some highlights

pp.：  402 – 407

7.2. Bringing into focus: Holism and dualism, heart and head

pp.：  407 – 416

7.3. Looking beyond: Methodological issues

pp.：  416 – 423

7.4. Emerging from it: Afterword

pp.：  423 – 429

Backmatter

pp.：  429 – 430

LastPages

pp.：  430 – 487

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