Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures by

Description: Words and Meanings by Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka This book presents cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigations of word meaning from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The words they consider are complex, culturally important, and basic, in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 andviolence; 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, andthe concepts of semantic molecules and templates. Their fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and words. Author Biography Cliff Goddard is Professor of Linguistics at Griffith University, Brisbane. His books include Semantic Analysis (OUP 1998, 2nd edn 2011), Cross-Linguistic Semantics (ed., 2008, John Benjamins), and The Languages of East and Southeast Asia (2005, OUP).Anna Wierzbicka is Professor of Linguistics at Australian National University. Her many books include Semantics: Primes and Universals (OUP 1996), Emotions across Languages and Cultures (CUP 1999), and Experience, Evidence & Sense: The hidden cultural legacy of English (OUP 2010). Professors Goddard and Wierzbicka are co-editors of two collective volumes: Semantic and Lexical Universals and Meaning and Universal Grammar (John Benjamins, 1994and 2002). Table of Contents 1: Words, Meaning, and Methodology2: Men, Women, and Children: The semantics of basic social categories3: Sweet, Hot, Hard, heavy, Rough, Sharp: Physical quality words in cross-linguistic perspective4: From Colour Words to Visual Semantics: English, Russian, Warlpiri5: Happiness and Human Values in Cross-cultural and Historical Perspective6: Pain Is it a Human Universal? The Perspective From Cross-linguistic Semantics7: Suggesting, Apologising, Complimenting: English speech act verbs8: A Stitch in Time and The Way of The Rice Plant: The semantics of proverbs in English and Malay9: The Meaning of Abstract Nouns: Locke, Bentham and Contemporary Semantics10: Broader Perspectives: Beyond lexical semanticsReferencesIndex Review the great pleasure the reader will experience while reading Words & Meanings as it revivifies the rich philosophical background you can keep in mind when discussing the main topics: the authors demonstrate that beyond linguistic schools of thought, there is still a lot to learn from Jeremy Bentham, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, John Locke and John Stuart Mill to put things in perspective. They guide the reader from the general to the particular, from the generic to the specific, from the concrete to the abstract, from the simple to the complex ... As a result, the readers linguistic landscape cannot fail to be enriched because it becomes more diversified * Cathy Parc, Lexis * Long Description 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 andviolence; 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, andthe concepts of semantic molecules and templates. Their fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and words. Review Quote "Words and Meanings is the culmination of a wealth of research by the authors into cross-cultural semantics and the feasibility of using a semantic metalanguage... Overall, Words and Meanings is a thought-provoking text that discusses a wide range of lexical sets, and presents a good introduction to the Natural Semantic Metalanguage for those unfamiliar with it, but will also be of interest to those already engaged in scholarly work within this theoretical perspective." --LinguistList Feature Cross-linguistic and Cross-culturalAccessible, readable textCross-disciplinary approach and appealInternationally prominent authors Details ISBN0199668434 Author Anna Wierzbicka Year 2013 ISBN-10 0199668434 ISBN-13 9780199668434 Format Hardcover Short Title WORDS & MEANINGS Language English Media Book Subtitle Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 401.43 Affiliation Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University UK Release Date 2013-11-28 AU Release Date 2013-11-28 NZ Release Date 2013-11-28 Pages 324 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2013-11-28 Imprint Oxford University Press Alternative 9780198783558 Illustrations Tables, Figures Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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