Mizuta, Yoko: A Corpus-Based Case Study of Human Insight into Concepts and Reality and Its Philosophical Implications: Japanese _Jibun_ ‘Self’ and _Shiawase_ ‘Happiness’

Journal of Cognitive Science 26 (3):289-335. 2025This paper aims to explore the dynamic aspect of deepening our understanding of concepts and reality that involves experiences and thought at later stages of our lives along personal and social dimensions. We take a linguistic approach, using corpus data focusing on examples of Japanese hontōno {jibun/ shiawase} ‘true {self/ happiness}’ and their lexical variants. Insights about the concept and reality of hontōno {jibun/ shiawase} are identified