The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective : Culture, Body, and Language.

His book is a cognitive semantic study of the Chinese conceptualization of the heart, traditionally seen as the central faculty of cognition. The Chinese word xin, which primarily denotes the heart organ, covers the meanings of both "heart" and "mind" as understood in English, wh...

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Main Author: Yu, Ning
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
Series:Applications of cognitive linguistics.
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