Meaning, life and culture : in conversation with Anna Wierzbicka /
This book is dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka, one of the most influential and innovative linguists of her generation. Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural psychology, cognitive science, philosophy and religious studies, as well as her home base of linguistics. She is...
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Canberra, ACT, Australia :
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Zhengdao Ye and Helen Bromhead
- Part 1 : Meaning, life and culture: The Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach. 1. Prototypes, polysemy and constructional semantics : The lexicogrammar of the English verb climb / Cliff Goddard ; 2. The comparative semantics of verbs of 'opening' : West Africa vs Oceania / Felix K. Ameka and Deborah Hill ; 3. 'Gezellig' : A Dutch cultural keyword unpacked / Bert Peeters ; 4. Royal semantics : Linguacultural reflections on the Danish address pronoun 'De' / Carsten Levisen ; 5. The Singlish interjection 'bojio' / Jock Onn Wong ; 6. The semantics of 'bushfire' in Australian English / Helen Bromhead ; 7. The semantics of 'migrant' in Australian English / Zhengdao Ye ; 8. The semantics of verbs of visual aesthetic appreciation in Russian / Anna Gladkova ; 9. Christian values embedded in the Italian language : A semantic analysis of 'carita`' / Gian Marco Farese ; 10. The semantics of two loanwords in Navarrese Spanish / Mónica Aznárez-Mauleón ; 11. Time in Portuguese 'saudade' and other words of longing / Zuzanna Bulat Silva ; 12. Lost in translation : A semantic analysis of 'no da' in Japanese / Yuko Asano-Cavanagh
- Part 2 : Meaning, life and culture : Perspectives. 13. Locating 'mind' (and 'soul') cross-culturally / Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy ; 14. Teknocentric kin terms in Australian languages / Harold Koch ; 15. Showing and not telling in a sign language / John Haiman ; 16. Games that people play : Capitalism as a game / Annabelle Mooney ; 17. Our ordinary lives : Pathways to a more human-oriented linguistics / John Newman ; 18. On defining parts of speech with Generative Grammar and NSM / Avery D. Andrews ; 19. Cut-verbs of the Oceanic language Teop : A critical study of collecting and analysing data in a language documentation project / Ulrike Mosel ; 20. The depiction of sensing events in English and Kalam / Andrew Pawley ; 21. Russian language-specific words in the light of parallel corpora / Alexei Shmelev ; 22. 'Sense of privacy' and 'sense of elbow' : English vs Russian values and communicative styles / Tatiana Larina ; 23. On the semantics of 'cup' / Keith Allan ; 24. Where we part from NSM : Understanding Warlpiri yangka and the Warlpiri expression of part-hood / David Nash and David P. Wilkins ; Envoi ; Anna Wierzbicka's life / Kevin Windle and Mary Besemeres.