Emotions, Morality, and Cognition: The Unprecedented Scope of the Concept of the Heart in Amharic

Emotions, Morality, and Cognition: The Unprecedented Scope of the Concept of the Heart in Amharic

This study sheds light on the unique conceptualization of the heart in Amharic, based on dictionary data, corpus data, and a self-collected corpus of text excerpts. What stands out is the unusually vast scope of the concept, which embraces not only emotions, character and morality, but also cogniti...

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Main Author: Aleksander Kacprzak
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universität Hamburg Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies Asien-Afrika-Institut 2025-05-01
Series:Aethiopica
Subjects:
concept of the heart
Amharic worldview
ethnolinguistics
embodied cognition
Amharic semantics
Amharic language
Online Access:https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/article/view/2181
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