Semantics, culture, and cognition : universal human concepts in culture-specific configurations. configurations.

Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wierzbicka, Anna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford Univ Press, 1992.
Temas:
Linguistic universals.
Semantics.
Language and culture.
Intercultural communication.
Psycholinguistics.
Universaux (Linguistique)
Sémantique.
Langage et culture.
Psycholinguistique.
semantics.
psycholinguistics.
Intercultural communication
Language and culture
Linguistic universals
Psycholinguistics
Semantics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo culture and proposes instead a "natural semantic metalanguage" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals. The outcome of two and a half decades of research, the metalanguage is made up of universal semantic primitives in terms of which all meanings--including the most cul.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (1 volume)
ISBN:0195360915
9780195360912

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