Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication by Sadow, Lauren; Peeters, Bert; Mullan, Kerry;

Minimal English (and Beyond)

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Edition number 1st ed. 2020
Publisher Springer Nature Singapore
Date of Publication 6 November 2019
Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

ISBN 9789813299788
Binding Hardback
No. of pages253 pages
Size 235x155 mm
Weight 565 g
Language English
Illustrations VIII, 253 p. 33 illus., 12 illus. in color. Illustrations, black & white

Long description:

This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. This third volume explores the potential of Minimal English, a recent offshoot of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, with special reference to its use in Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication.

Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.

Semantic Analysis.- Semantic challenges in understanding Global English: hypothesis, theory and proof in Singapore English.- The conceptual semantics of alienable possession in Amharic.- Explication mix & match: how NSM can explain clusters of Cantonese utterance particles.- The confounding Mandarin colour term ‘qing’: green, blue, black or all of the above and more?.- Postcolonial prepositions: semantics and geopolitics in the Danosphere.-

The meaning of list constructions.- Meanings of coming “amædæn” and going “ræftæn” in Persian.- Where have all the verbs gone? Remarks on two languages with small, closed verb classes.- Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication.- An NSM-based cultural dictionary of Australian English.- Using NSM and “minimal” language for intercultural learning.-

Building a Spanish Dictionary with semantic primes and molecules: a semi-experimental proposal.- From Expensive English to Minimal English: glossary terms for PNG agricultural development.

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