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Nie, Chenwei (2023) Can a bodily theorist of pain speak Mandarin? Philosophia, 51 . pp. 261-272. doi:10.1007/s11406-021-00353-3 ISSN 0048-3893.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00353-3
Abstract
According to a bodily view of pain, pains are objects which are located in body parts. This bodily view is supported by the locative locutions for pain in English, such as that “I have a pain in my back.” Recently, Liu and Klein (Analysis, 80(2), 262–272, 2020) carry out a cross-linguistic analysis, and they claim that (1) Mandarin has no locative locutions for pain and (2) the absence of locative locutions for pain puts the bodily view at risk. This paper rejects both claims. Regarding the philosophical claim, I argue that a language without locative locutions for pain only poses a limited challenge to the bodily view. Regarding the empirical claim, I identify the possible factors which might have misled Liu and Klein about the locative locutions for pain in Mandarin, and argue that Mandarin has a wide range of locative locutions for pain by conducting a corpus analysis. I conclude that compared to English, Mandarin lends no less, if not more, support to the bodily view of pain.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Pain -- Philosophy, Similarity (Language learning) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophia | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0048-3893 | ||||||||
Official Date: | March 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 51 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 261-272 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11406-021-00353-3 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 March 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 March 2021 | ||||||||
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