Semantics, Culture, and Cognition: Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations

by Anna Wierzbicka

Book Overview

Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo culture and proposes instead a "natural semantic metalanguage" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals. The outcome of two...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195073266
• ISBN13: 9780195073263
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"