Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words

English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese

By:

Anna Wierzbicka

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

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This work demonstrates that every language has its "key concepts" (expressed in key words) and that these concepts reflect the core values of the culture in question. Examining empirical evidence from five lanuages, and using its own "natural semantic metalanguage" to provide an analytical framework, it shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared and explained to outsiders through their key concepts.

Author Biography:

Dr. Anna Wierzbicka is Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University. She has lectured extensively at universities in Europe, America, and Japan, and is the author of many books, including Semantics: Primes and Universals (OUP, 1996) and Semantics, Culture, and Cognition: Universal Human Concepts in Human-Specific Configurations (OUP, 1992).

Release date Australia

November 6th, 1997

Author

Anna Wierzbicka

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

328

Series

Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

Dimensions

153x234x18

ISBN-13

9780195088366

Product ID

2009282

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