Words and meanings : lexical semantics across domains, languages, and cultures / Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.Description: 314 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780198783558 (pbk.)
- 9780199668434 (Hbk)
- 401.43 23 GOD
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Originally published: 2014.
Formerly CIP.
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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