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. This
fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations
between meaning, culture, ideas, and words. 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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