--- abstract: "A philological and comparative analysis of the lexical items\r\nconcerning 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\r\ndualistic 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." altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: 'July 14-19, 2007' conference: 'Statistical Physics of Social Dynamics: Opinions, Semiotic Dynamics, and Language ' confloc: Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center For Scientific Culture – Erice (Italy) contact_email: ~ creators_id: - evola@unipa.it creators_name: - family: Evola given: Vito honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2007-07 date_type: published datestamp: 2008-07-15 09:56:00 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/61/16 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 6116 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/6116/3/erice%2Dposter.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'philology, cognitive linguistics, body, soul, Hebrew, Greek, English, religion, St. Paul, religion, Christianity, Judaism, frames, translation, exegesis ' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:09 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: "Croft, W. (1993). The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymies. Cognitive Linguistics 4:335-370. \r\n\r\nEvola, Vito (2005) Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts. Journal of Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Vol. 6(N. 2). \r\n\r\nKoch, P. (2004). Metonymy between pragmatics, reference, and diachrony, metaphorik.de 07/2004. \r\n\r\nLakoff, G. (1987). Women, fire, and dangerous things: what categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. \r\n\r\nLangacker, R. (1991). Concept, Image, Symbol: The Cognitive Basis of Grammar (second edition: 2002). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. \r\n\r\nTaylor, J. R. (1995). Linguistic categorization: Prototypes in linguistic theory. 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon \r\nPress." relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 64 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2008-07-15 09:56:00 subjects: - phil-epist - ling-compara - phil-metaphys - psy-ling - ling-prag - evol-psy - phil-mind - phil-ethics - ling-sem - ling-syntax - soc-psy - cog-psy - phil-lang - hist-ling succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: "Cognitive Linguistics and the Evolution of Body and Soul \r\nin the Western World: from Ancient Hebrew to Modern English" type: confposter userid: 2646 volume: ~