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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Series: | Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.