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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055144143 Title: Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words : English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese. Author: Anna Wierzbicka Publisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, USA, 1997. ISBN/ISSN: 9780195358490 019535849X OCLC:1055144143

  
  

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Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words : English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese.

Author:	Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher:	Cary : Oxford University Press, USA, 1997.
Series:	Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has ""key concepts, "" expressed in ""key words, "" which reflect the core values of a given culture. She shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared, and explained to outsiders through their key concepts, and that the analytical framework necessary for this purpose is provided by the ""natural semantic metalanguage, "" based on lexical universals, that the author and colleag.  Read more...
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Subjects	Language and culture. Lexicology -- Social aspects.
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