How to Locate Pain in Mandarin: Reply to Liu and Klein

Author:Tsung-Hsing Ho

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Some philosophers argue that pain is an object located in bodily parts because the locative form of pain report is permissible in English. To examine this argument, Liu and Klein recently argue that the linguistic argument cannot work because the locative form is impermissible in Mandarin. They are wrong, however. I demonstrate that the locative form in Mandarin is not only permissible but also common.

Keywords: bodily theory、cross-linguistic study between Mandarin and English、locative form、pain