Words and Meanings
Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 November 2013
- ISBN 9780199668434
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 238x163x28 mm
- Weight 654 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Tables, Figures 0
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Short description:
This book presents cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigations of word meaning from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The words they consider are complex, culturally important, and basic, in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay.
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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. Some are basic like men, women, and children or abstract nouns like trauma and violence; others describe qualities such as hot, hard, and rough, emotions like happiness and sadness, or feelings like pain. This fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and words. They ground their discussions in real examples from different cultures and draw on work ranging from Leibniz, Locke, and Bentham, to popular works such as autobiographies and memoirs, and the Dalai Lama on happiness.
The book opens with a review of the neglected status of lexical semantics in linguistics. The authors consider a range of analytical issues including lexical polysemy, semantic change, the relationship between lexical and grammatical semantics, and the concepts of semantic molecules and templates. Their fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and words.
the great pleasure the reader will experience while reading Words & Meanings as it revivifies the rich philosophical background you can keep in mind when discussing the main topics: the authors demonstrate that beyond linguistic schools of thought, there is still a lot to learn from Jeremy Bentham, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, John Locke and John Stuart Mill to put things in perspective. They guide the reader from the general to the particular, from the generic to the specific, from the concrete to the abstract, from the simple to the complex ... As a result, the reader's linguistic landscape cannot fail to be enriched because it becomes more diversified
Table of 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
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