- Additional Authors
- Wierzbicka, Anna.
- Description
- 1 online resource (314 pages)
- Summary
- "In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. They focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay."--Publishers website
- Series Statement
- Oxford linguistics
- Uniform Title
- Words and meanings (Online)
- Oxford linguistics.
- Alternative Title
- Words and meanings (Online)
- Words & meanings
- Subject
- Semantics
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-290) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Words, Meaning, and Methodology -- Men, Women, and Children: The semantics of basic social categories -- Sweet, Hot, Hard, heavy, Rough, Sharp: Physical quality words in cross-linguistic perspective -- From Colour Words to Visual Semantics: English, Russian, Warlpiri -- Happiness and Human Values in Cross-cultural and Historical Perspective -- Pain Is it a Human Universal? The Perspective From Cross-linguistic Semantics -- Suggesting, Apologising, Complimenting: English speech act verbs -- A Stitch in Time and The Way of The Rice Plant: The semantics of proverbs in English and Malay -- The Meaning of Abstract Nouns: Locke, Bentham and Contemporary Semantics -- Broader Perspectives: Beyond lexical semantics.
- LCCN
- 2013945603
- OCLC
- ssj0001171266
- Author
Goddard, Cliff.
- Title
Words and meanings [electronic resource] : lexical semantics across domains, languages, and cultures / Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka.
- Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Edition
First edition.
- Series
Oxford linguistics
Oxford linguistics.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-290) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Wierzbicka, Anna.
- Spine Title
Words & meanings