Semantics, Culture, and Cognition : Universal Human Concepts in Culture-specific Configurations
by
Wierzbicka
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0195073266
ISBN-13
9780195073263
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 10th, 1992
Print length
496 Pages
Weight
782 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.30 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of languageSemantics, discourse analysis, etcCultural studies
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This study ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures in an attempt to identify concepts which are truly universal and to explore whether certain words are culture-specific.
To what extent are languages `essentially the same''? Is every word in our language translatable into every other language or are some of our words and concepts `culture specific''? In this innovative study, Wierzbicka ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures, attempting to identify concepts which are truly universal, while at the same time arguing that every language constitutes a different `guide to reality''. The lexicons of different languages, she shows, do indeed suggest different conceptual universes. Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another, and this is not just a matter of certain things being easier to say in one language than in another. In the development of her argument, Wierzbicka focuses on the words for emotion, moral concepts, names, and titles.
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