title: Cognitive Linguistics and the Evolution of Body and Soul    in the Western World: from Ancient Hebrew to Modern English
creator: Evola, Vito
subject: Epistemology
subject: Comparative Linguistics
subject: Metaphysics
subject: Psycholinguistics
subject: Pragmatics
subject: Evolutionary Psychology
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Ethics
subject: Semantics
subject: Syntax
subject: Social Psychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Philosophy of Language
subject: Historical Linguistics
description: A philological and comparative analysis of the lexical items  concerning personhood in Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Greek and Modern English reveals semantic shifts concerning the relative lexical concepts. Ancient Hebrew presents an essentially holistic idea of personhood, whereas, via Biblical translations and Greek philosophical influences, the Western World has conceptualized humans as being  dualistic in nature. I analyze the polysemy and semantic shifts in the lexicon used for "body" and "soul" in Ancient Hebrew and Ancient Greek, which are the two linguistic systems known by St. Paul of Tarsus, and then confront them with Paul's usage context, and finally with Modern English, hypothesizing a possible case of linguistic relativity.
date: 2007-07
type: Conference Poster
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/6116/3/erice-poster.pdf
identifier:   Evola, Vito  (2007) Cognitive Linguistics and the Evolution of Body and Soul in the Western World: from Ancient Hebrew to Modern English.  [Conference Poster]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/6116/