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Semantics, culture, and cognition
- Title
- Semantics, culture, and cognition / Anna Wierzbicka.
- Author
- Wierzbicka, Anna.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | P204 .W54 1992 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 487 pages; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- I. Linguistic Evidence for Ethnopsychology and Ethnophilosophy -- 1. Soul, Mind, and Heart -- 2. Fate and Destiny -- II. Emotions Across Cultures -- 3. Are Emotions Universal or Culture-Specific? -- 4. Describing the Indescribable -- III. Moral Concepts Across Cultures -- 5. Apatheia, Smirenie, Humility -- 6. Courage, Bravery, Recklessness -- IV. Names and Titles -- 7. Personal Names and Expressive Derivation -- 8. Titles and Other Forms of Address -- V. Kinship Semantics -- 9. Lexical Universals and Psychological Reality -- 10. 'Alternate Generations' in Australian Aboriginal Languages -- VI. Language as a Mirror of Culture and 'National Character' -- 11. Australian English -- 12. The Russian Language.
- ISBN
- 0195073258 (alk.paper)
- 0195073266 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 91022152
- OCLC
- 27385736
- ocm27385736
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries