TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goddard,Cliff
AU  - Wierzbicka,Anna
TI  - Words and meanings: lexical semantics across domains, languages, and cultures 
T2  - Oxford linguistics
SN  - 9780199668434
AV  - P325 .G654 2014
U1  - 401.4 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Semantics
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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