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Ten lectures on natural semantic metalanguage : exploring language, thought and culture using simple, translatable words /

This lively lecture series by a leading expert introduces the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and well-developed approach to cross-linguistic semantics: the NSM approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka. Topics include: history and philosophy of the study of meaning, semantic...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Goddard, Cliff (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Collection:Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics.
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Table des matières:
  • From Leibniz to Wierzbicka: The history and philosophy of NSM
  • Semantic primes and their grammar
  • Explicating emotion concepts across languages and cultures
  • Wonderful, terrific, fabulous: English evaluational adjectives
  • Semantic molecules and semantic complexity
  • Words as carriers of cultural meaning
  • English verb semantics: verbs of doing and saying
  • English verb alternations and constructions
  • Applications of NSM: minimal English, cultural scripts and language
  • Teaching retrospect: NSM compared with other approaches to semantic analysis.