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

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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, attempt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wierzbicka, Anna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Temas:
Linguistic universals.
Semantics.
Language and culture.
Intercultural communication.
Psycholinguistics.
Semantics
Psycholinguistics
Universaux (Linguistique)
Sémantique.
Langage et culture.
Communication interculturelle.
Psycholinguistique.
semantics.
psycholinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
Intercultural communication
Language and culture
Linguistic universals
Begriff
Bezeichnung
Kognition
Kultur
Kulturvergleich
Nationalcharakter
Sprache
Sprachliche Universalien
Universalien
Taaluniversalia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • [Pt.] 1. Linguistic evidence for ethnopsychology and ethnophilosophy. Soul, mind, and heart
  • Fate and destiny
  • [pt.] 2. Emotions across cultures. Are emotions universal or culture-specific?
  • Describing the indescribable
  • [pt.] 3. Moral concepts across cultures. Apatheia, smirenie, humility
  • Courage, bravery, recklessness
  • [pt.] 4. Names and titles. Personal names and expressive derivation
  • Titles and other forms of address
  • [pt.] 5. Kinship semantics. Lexical universals and psychological reality
  • 'Alternate generations' in Australian aboriginal languages
  • [pt.] 6. Language as mirror of culture and 'national character.' Australian English
  • The Russian language.

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