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The heart appears to be of great interest to cultures around the world, and one Christian thinker, David Naugle, suggests that we would benefit from considering the heart as a fundamental and universal faculty of thinking and feeling. Naugle was challenging the practice in the social sciences and humanities of disparaging or “dropping” the heart as a working paradigm for thinking about human experience. In response to Naugle, this paper outlines five paradoxes of the heart. Is the heart good, according to the Bible? Why is such a complex concept so easy to translate? And how does the size, the gender, and the life of the heart affect the way we understand it as a faculty of thinking and feeling?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dv6Q-bKN1Y (accessed 15 March 2019).
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www.rep.univ-rouen.fr (accessed 15 March 2019).
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Established online electronic corpora : the British National Corpus, with its 100 million words; the Coca, 440 million word corpus of colloquial American English; the Leipzig Wortschatz corpus, with its English , French , German , Czech corpora.
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My own more restricted corpora of texts I am very familiar with: MyEnglishCorpus, c. 3 million words; MyFrenchCorpus, c. 3 million words; MyAmericanCorpus, c. 3 million words.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FocsK46kS18 (accessed 28 January 2019).
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Underhill, J.W. (2019). Do Paradoxes Have a Place in Worldviews? Conceptual Configurations of “Heart” and Their Contradictions in English and Other Languages. In: Głaz, A. (eds) Languages – Cultures – Worldviews. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28509-8_11
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