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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Anna Wierzbicka |
| ISBN: | 0195073258 9780195073256 0195073266 9780195073263 |
| OCLC Number: | 24010651 |
| Description: | viii, 487 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | [pt.] 1. Linguistic evidence for ethnopsychology and ethnophilosophy. Soul, mind, and heart -- Fate and destiny -- [pt.] 2. Emotions across cultures. Are emotions universal or culture-specific? -- Describing the indescribable -- [pt.] 3. Moral concepts across cultures. Apatheia, smirenie, humility -- Courage, bravery, recklessness -- [pt.] 4. Names and titles. Personal names and expressive derivation -- Titles and other forms of address -- [pt.] 5. Kinship semantics. Lexical universals and psychological reality -- 'Alternate generations' in Australian aboriginal languages -- [pt.] 6. Language as mirror of culture and 'national character.' Australian English -- The Russian language. |
| Responsibility: | Anna Wierzbicka. |
Abstract:
"Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo-culture and proposes instead a "natural semantic metalanguage" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals. The outcome of two and a half decades of research, the metalanguage is made of universal semantic primitives in terms of which all meanings, including the most culture-specific ones, can be described and compared in a precise and illuminating way. Integrating insights from linguistics, cultural anthropology, and cognitive psychology, and written in simple, non-technical language Semantics, culture, and cognition isaccessible not only to scholars and students, but also to the general reader interested in semantics and the relationship between language and culture."--Cover, p. 4.
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