TY - BOOK AU - Goddard,Cliff AU - AU - Wierzbicka,Anna AU - TI - Words and meanings: lexical semantics across domains, languages, and cultures SN - 9780198783558 (pbk.) U1 - 401.43 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York : PB - Oxford University Press KW - Semantics N1 - Originally published: 2014; Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; ; 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, Apologising, 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 N2 - 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 ER -