The Chinese heart as the central faculty of cognition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents VII
3. List of contributors IX
4. A. Introduction
5. Culture and language: Looking for the “mind” inside the body 3
6. B. Abdomen-centering conceptualizations
7. Gut feelings: Locating intellect, emotionand lifeforce in the Thaayorre body 27
8. Did he break your heart or your liver? A contrastive study on metaphorical concepts from the source domain ORGAN in English and in Indonesian 45
9. Contrastive semantics and cultural psychology:English heart vs. Malay hati 75
10. Guts, heart and liver: The conceptualization of internal organs in Basque 103
11. C. Holistic heart-centering conceptualizations
12. The Chinese heart as the central faculty of cognition 131
13. The heart – What it means to the Japanese speakers 169
14. How to have a HEART in Japanese 191
15. The Korean conceptualization of heart: An indigenous perspective 213
16. D. Dualistic heart/head-centering conceptualizations
17. Conceptualizations of del ‘heart-stomach’ in Persian 247
18. Expressions concerning the heart (libbā) in Northeastern Neo-Aramaic in relation to a Classical Syriac model of the temperaments 267
19. Hearts and (angry) minds in Old English 319
20. To be in control: kind-hearted and cool-headed. The head-heart dichotomy in English 349
21. The heart as a source of semiosis: The case of Dutch 373
22. The heart and cultural embodiment in Tunisian Arabic 395
23. Backmatter 429