Expressing the Self: Cultural Diversity and Cognitive Universals Minyao Huang

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• ISBN 10: 0191090298
• ISBN 13: 9780191090295
• Author:  Minyao Huang

This book addresses different linguistic and philosophical aspects of referring to the self in a wide range of languages from different language families, including Amharic, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Newari (Sino-Tibetan), Polish, Tariana (Arawak), and Thai. In the domain of speaking about oneself, languages use a myriad of expressions that cut across grammatical and semantic categories, as well as a wide variety of constructions. Languages of Southeast and East Asia famously employ a great number of terms for first person reference to signal honorification. The number and mixed properties of these terms make them debatable candidates for pronounhood, with many grammar-driven classifications opting to classify them with nouns. Some languages make use of egophors or logophors, and many exhibit an interaction between expressing the self and expressing evidentiality qua the epistemic status of information held from the ego perspective. The volume’s focus on expressing the self, however, is not directly motivated by an interest in the grammar or lexicon, but instead stems from philosophical discussions on the special status of thoughts about oneself, known as de se thoughts. It is this interdisciplinary understanding of expressing the self that underlies this volume, comprising philosophy of mind at one end of the spectrum and cross-cultural pragmatics of self-expression at the other. This unprecedented juxtaposition results in a novel method of approaching de se and de se expressions, in which research methods from linguistics and philosophy inform each other. The importance of this interdisciplinary perspective on expressing the self cannot be overemphasized. Crucially, the volume also demonstrates that linguistic research on first-person reference makes a valuable contribution to research on the self tout court, by exploring the ways in which the self is expressed, and thereby adding to the insights gained through philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The self in language, in thought, and en route in-between
2. ‘Me’, ‘us’, and ‘others: ’Expressing the self in Arawak languages of South America, w
3. The proper treatment of egophoricity in Kathmandu Newari
4. Self-referring in Korean, with reference to Korean first-person markers
5. Expressing the self in Japanese: Indexical expressions in the service of indexical thoughts
6. De se marking, logophoricity, and ziji
7. Charting the speaker-relatedness of impersonal pronouns: Contrastive evidence from English, Frenc
8. Expressing the selves: Subject splits and viewpoint hierarchies in multiple-perspective construct
9. Referential variability of generic ‘one’
10. Expressing the sel: fFrom types of de se to speech-act types
11. The incremental self
12. On the essentiality of thoughts (and reference
13. Pragmatic indexicals

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