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Semantics, Culture, and Cognition: Universal Human ...
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 ... [... more]
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Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words: English, ...
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 ... [... more]
$72.00
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Semantics: Primes and Universals
Conceptual primitives and semantic universals are the cornerstones of a semantic theory which Anna Wierzbicka has been developing for many years. Semantics: Primes and Universals is a major synthesis of her work, presenting a full and systematic ... [... more]
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Emotions across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and ...
In this ground-breaking book, Anna Wierzbicka brings psychological, anthropological and lingusitic insights to bear on our understanding of the way emotions are expressed and experienced in different cultures, languages, and social relations. The ... [... more]
$36.99
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Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human ...
This book, which can be seen as both a research monograph and a text book, challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal "maxims of conversation" and "principles of politeness", which fly in the face of ... [... more]
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What did Jesus Mean?: Explaining the Sermon on the Mount ...
In this highly interdisciplinary work, linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts new light on the words of Jesus by taking her well-known semantic theory of "universal human concepts"- concepts which are intuitively understandable and self-explanatory ... [... more]
$60.00
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English: Meaning and Culture
It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Its dominance has even led to its use and adaptation by local communities for their own purposes and needs. One might see English in this context as being simply a ... [... more]
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'Happiness' in cross-linguistic & cross-cultural ...
This digital document is an article from Daedalus, published by American Academy of Arts and Sciences on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 5459 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in ... [... more]
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Lingua Mentalis: The Semantics of Natural Language
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English: Meaning and Culture
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Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words: English, ...
In this groundbreaking book, Wierzbicka demonstrates that every language has its "key concepts" and that these key concepts reflect the core values of the culture. Further, she argues that within a culture-independent analytical framework one ... [... more]
$64.12
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