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Words and meanings : lexical semantics across domains, languages, and cultures / Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Oxford linguisticsPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.Edition: First editionDescription: 314 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199668434
  • 0199668434
Other title:
  • Words & meanings [Spine title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.4
LOC classification:
  • P325 .G654 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Words, Meaning, and Methodology -- Men, Women, and Children: The semantics of basic social categories -- Sweet, Hot, Hard, heavy, Rough, Sharp: Physical quality words in cross-linguistic perspective -- From Colour Words to Visual Semantics: English, Russian, Warlpiri -- Happiness and Human Values in Cross-cultural and Historical Perspective -- Pain Is it a Human Universal? The Perspective From Cross-linguistic Semantics -- Suggesting, Apologising, Complimenting: English speech act verbs -- A Stitch in Time and The Way of The Rice Plant: The semantics of proverbs in English and Malay -- The Meaning of Abstract Nouns: Locke, Bentham and Contemporary Semantics -- Broader Perspectives: Beyond lexical semantics.
Summary: "In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. They focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay."--Publishers website
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-290) and index.

Words, Meaning, and Methodology -- Men, Women, and Children: The semantics of basic social categories -- Sweet, Hot, Hard, heavy, Rough, Sharp: Physical quality words in cross-linguistic perspective -- From Colour Words to Visual Semantics: English, Russian, Warlpiri -- Happiness and Human Values in Cross-cultural and Historical Perspective -- Pain Is it a Human Universal? The Perspective From Cross-linguistic Semantics -- Suggesting, Apologising, Complimenting: English speech act verbs -- A Stitch in Time and The Way of The Rice Plant: The semantics of proverbs in English and Malay -- The Meaning of Abstract Nouns: Locke, Bentham and Contemporary Semantics -- Broader Perspectives: Beyond lexical semantics.

"In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. They focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay."--Publishers website

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