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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. 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 mole

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Author

Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198783558

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction