Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures

by Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka

Book Overview

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;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199668434
• ISBN13: 9780199668434
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"