02683cam a2200421 a 4500 17821054 MWNLS 20160506102551.0 130718s2014 enk b 001 0 eng d 2013945603 016488594 Uk 9780199668434 0199668434 (OCoLC)ocn830367893 YDXCP eng YDXCP BTCTA UKMGB CDX OCLCO CHVBK OCLCQ LTSCA MUU DLC lccopycat P325 .G654 2014 401.4 Goddard, Cliff, author. Words and meanings : lexical semantics across domains, languages, and cultures / Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka. Words & meanings First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. 314 pages ; 24 cm. Oxford linguistics 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 Semantics. Wierzbicka, Anna, author. Oxford linguistics. Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1410/2013945603-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1410/2013945603-d.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1410/2013945603-t.html 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 21846 21846 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC BT BT GEN 2016-05-06 BAI 6000.00 401.4 GOD 0092202 2026-09-09 13:43:06 9000.00 2016-05-06 BK