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- catalog abstract ""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 analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo-culture and proposes instead a "natural semantic metalanguage" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals. The outcome of two and a half decades of research, the metalanguage is made of universal semantic primitives in terms of which all meanings, including the most culture-specific ones, can be described and compared in a precise and illuminating way. Integrating insights from linguistics, cultural anthropology, and cognitive psychology, and written in simple, non-technical language Semantics, culture, and cognition isaccessible not only to scholars and students, but also to the general reader interested in semantics and the relationship between language and culture."--Cover page 4.".
- catalog contributor b3440118.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""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 analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo-culture and proposes instead a "natural semantic metalanguage" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals. The outcome of two and a half decades of research, the metalanguage is made of universal semantic primitives in terms of which all meanings, including the most culture-specific ones, can be described and compared in a precise and illuminating way. Integrating insights from linguistics, cultural anthropology, and cognitive psychology, and written in simple, non-technical language Semantics, culture, and cognition isaccessible not only to scholars and students, but also to the general reader interested in semantics and the relationship between language and culture."--Cover page 4.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "[pt.] 1. Linguistic evidence for ethnopsychology and ethnophilosophy. Soul, mind, and heart -- Fate and destiny -- [pt.] 2. Emotions across cultures. Are emotions universal or culture-specific? -- Describing the indescribable -- [pt.] 3. Moral concepts across cultures. Apatheia, smirenie, humility -- Courage, bravery, recklessness -- [pt.] 4. Names and titles. Personal names and expressive derivation -- Titles and other forms of address -- [pt.] 5. Kinship semantics. Lexical universals and psychological reality -- 'Alternate generations' in Australian aboriginal languages -- [pt.] 6. Language as mirror of culture and 'national character.' Australian English -- The Russian language.".
- catalog extent "viii, 487 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195073258 (alk.paper)".
- catalog identifier "0195073266 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "401/.43 20".
- catalog subject "Intercultural communication.".
- catalog subject "Language and culture.".
- catalog subject "Linguistic universals.".
- catalog subject "P204 .W54 1992".
- catalog subject "Psycholinguistics.".
- catalog subject "Semantics.".
- catalog subject "Universals (Linguistics)".
- catalog tableOfContents "[pt.] 1. Linguistic evidence for ethnopsychology and ethnophilosophy. Soul, mind, and heart -- Fate and destiny -- [pt.] 2. Emotions across cultures. Are emotions universal or culture-specific? -- Describing the indescribable -- [pt.] 3. Moral concepts across cultures. Apatheia, smirenie, humility -- Courage, bravery, recklessness -- [pt.] 4. Names and titles. Personal names and expressive derivation -- Titles and other forms of address -- [pt.] 5. Kinship semantics. Lexical universals and psychological reality -- 'Alternate generations' in Australian aboriginal languages -- [pt.] 6. Language as mirror of culture and 'national character.' Australian English -- The Russian language.".
- catalog title "Semantics, culture, and cognition : universal human concepts in culture-specific configurations / Anna Wierzbicka.".
- catalog type "text".