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1	English: Meaning and Culture more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Its dominance has even led to its use and adaptation by local communities for their own purposes and needs. One might see English in this context as being simply a neutral, universal vehicle for the expression of local thoughts and ideas. In fact, English ... see all copies from £15.40! new only from £19.46!
2	Cross-Cultural Pragmatics more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist The book discusses data from a wide range of languages and it shows that the meanings expressed in human interaction and the different "cultural scripts" prevailing in different speech communities can be clearly and intelligibly described and compared by using a "natural semantic metalanguage", based on empirically established universal human ... see all copies from £21.43! new only from £38.90!
3	What Did Jesus Mean? Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist This interdisciplinary work aims to cast light on the words of Jesus by taking the author's semantic theory of "universal human concepts" - concepts which are intuitively understandable and self-explanatory across languages - and bringing it to bear on Jesus' parables and the Sermon on the Mount. Her approach results in novel interpretations of ... see all copies from £17.63! new only from £25.58!
4	Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist This work demonstrates that every language has its "key concepts" (expressed in key words) and that these concepts reflect the core values of the culture in question. Examining empirical evidence from five lanuages, and using its own "natural semantic metalanguage" to provide an analytical framework, it shows that cultures can be revealingly ... see all copies from £8.19! new only from £32.26!
5	Semantics, Culture, and Cognition: Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist To what extent are languages 'essentially the same'? Is every word in our language translatable into every other language or are some of our words and concepts 'culture specific'? In this innovative study, Wierzbicka ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures, attempting to identify concepts which are truly universal, while at the same ... see all copies from £25.73! new only from £30.05!
6	Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka, Keith Oatley (Editor), Antony Manstead (Editor) add to wishlist In this ground-breaking new book, Anna Wierzbicka brings psychological, anthropological and linguistic insights to bear on our understanding of the way emotions are expressed and experienced in different cultures, languages, and culturally-shaped social relations. The expression of emotion in the face, body and modes of speech are all explored and ... see all copies from £17.51! new only from £25.27!
7	Semantics: Primes and Universals more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist Conceptual primitives and semantic universals are the cornerstones of a semantic theory which Anna Wierzbicka has been developing for many years. Semantics: Primes and Universals is a major synthesis of her work, presenting a full and systematic exposition of that theory in a non-technical and readable way. It delineates a full set of universal ... see all copies from £27.87! new only from £38.95!
8	Translating Lives: Living with Two Languages and Cultures more books like this by Mary Besemeres (Editor), Anna Wierzbicka (Editor) add to wishlist A journey through an Australia composed of a multiplicity of languages and, therfore, many inner worlds. see all copies from £17.93! new only from £18.12!
9	Lingua Mentalis: The Semantics of Natural Language more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist see all copies from £32.73! new only from £32.73! \| first editions
10	Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist This work demonstrates that every language has its "key concepts" (expressed in key words) and that these concepts reflect the core values of the culture in question. Examining empirical evidence from five lanuages, and using its own "natural semantic metalanguage" to provide an analytical framework, it shows that cultures can be revealingly ... see all copies from £36.82! first editions
11	Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist see all copies from £37.14! new only from £37.14!
12	The Case for Surface Case more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist see all copies from £67.97! first editions
13	Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist see all copies from £82.45!
14 view cover	The Semantics of Grammar more books like this by Anna Wierzbicka add to wishlist Presenting a radically semantic approach to syntax and morphology, this book offers a methodology which makes it possible to demonstrate, on an empirical basis, that syntax is neither "autonomous" nor "arbitrary", but that it "follows from semantics". It is shown that every grammatical construction encodes a certain semantic structure, which can ... see all copies from £108.25! new only from £108.25!
15	Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and Empirical Findings more books like this by Cliff Goddard (Editor), Anna Wierzbicka (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £256.14! new only from £256.14!

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