Words and Meanings Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures,9780198783558

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

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780198783558
ISBN10: 0198783558
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2016-11-15
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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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: An Introduction (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).

Table of Contents


1. Words, meaning, and methodology
2. Men, women, and children: the semantics of basic social categories
3. Sweet, hot, hard, heavy, rough, sharp: physical quality words in cross-linguistic perspective
4. From "colour words" to visual semantics: English, Russian, Warlpiri
5. Happiness and human values in cross-cultural and historical perspective
6. Pain is it a human universal? The perspective from cross-linguistic semantics
7. Suggesting, apologizing, complimenting: English speech-act verbs
8. A stitch in time and the way of the rice plant: the semantics of proverbs in English and Malay
9. The meaning of "abstract nouns": Locke, Bentham and contemporary semantics
10. Broader Perspectives: Beyond lexical semantics
References
Index

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