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Words and Meanings - Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures (Paperback)
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Words and Meanings - Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures (Paperback)
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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. Some are basic like
men, women, and children or abstract nouns like trauma and
violence; others describe qualities such as hot, hard, and rough,
emotions like happiness and sadness, or feelings like pain. They
ground their discussions in real examples from different cultures
and draw on work ranging from Leibniz, Locke, and Bentham, to
popular works such as autobiographies and memoirs, and the Dalai
Lama on happiness. The book opens with a review of the neglected
status of lexical semantics in linguistics. The authors consider a
range of analytical issues including lexical polysemy, semantic
change, the relationship between lexical and grammatical semantics,
and the concepts of semantic molecules and templates. Their
fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations
between meaning, culture, ideas, and words.
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