Cross-Linguistic Semantics

Editor
| University of New England
HardboundAvailable
ISBN 9789027205698 | EUR 120.00 | USD 180.00
 
e-Book
ISBN 9789027291370 | EUR 120.00 | USD 180.00
 
Google Play logo
Cross-linguistic semantics – investigating how languages package and express meanings differently – is central to the linguistic quest to understand the nature of human language. This set of studies explores and demonstrates cross-linguistic semantics as practised in the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework, originated by Anna Wierzbicka. The opening chapters give a state-of-the-art overview of the NSM model, propose several theoretical innovations and advance a number of original analyses in connection with names and naming, clefts and other specificational sentences, and discourse anaphora. Subsequent chapters describe and analyse diverse phenomena in ten languages from multiple families, geographical locations, and cultural settings around the globe. Three substantial studies document how the metalanguage of NSM semantic primes can be realised in languages of widely differing types: Amharic (Ethiopia), Korean, and East Cree. Each constitutes a lexicogrammatical portrait in miniature of the language concerned. Other chapters probe topics such as inalienable possession in Koromu (Papua New Guinea), epistemic verbs in Swedish, hyperpolysemy in Bunuba (Australia), the expression of "momentariness" in Berber, ethnogeometry in Makasai (East Timor), value concepts in Russian, and “virtuous emotions” in Japanese. This book will be valuable for linguists working on language description, lexical semantics, or the semantics of grammar, for advanced students of linguistics, and for others interested in language universals and language diversity.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 102] 2008.  xvi, 356 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Cited by (77)

Cited by 77 other publications

Aznárez Mauleón, Mónica
2024. Chapter 4. New social categories in dangerous times. In The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346],  pp. 64 ff. DOI logo
Aznárez-Mauleón, Mónica
2020. La fórmula de rechazo¡Vete a … !en español peninsular. Una propuesta de análisis desde la Metalengua Semántica Natural (NSM). Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics 7:3  pp. 421 ff. DOI logo
Subiyanto, Agus, Nurhayati Nurhayati, M. Suryadi & Peter Suwarno
2024. Motion verbs related to Javanese traditional fishing activities: a natural semantic metalanguage approach. Cogent Arts & Humanities 11:1 DOI logo
Ardiantari, Desak Putu Salshabila
2023. Natural Semantic Metalanguage Analysis of English Speech Act Verb ‘Inform’. International Journal of Language and Literature 7:2  pp. 107 ff. DOI logo
Baloyi, Mafemani Joseph
2023. Semantic features in English print advertisements: a Xitsonga translation perspective. South African Journal of African Languages 43:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Carling, Gerd, Sandra Cronhamn, Olof Lundgren, Victor Bogren Svensson & Johan Frid
2023. The evolution of lexical semantics dynamics, directionality, and drift. Frontiers in Communication 8 DOI logo
Epifanova, Valentina Valerjevna
2023. Semantic parameterization of vocabulary as a means of identifying verbalization of culture-significant semantic zones in Russian and German (by the example of the lexico-semantic field “Friendship”). Philology. Theory & Practice 16:10  pp. 3229 ff. DOI logo
Fukuya, Mitsuki, Tomoko Matsumoto, Yutaka Shimada & Tohru Ikeguchi
2023. Central emotions and hubs in a colexification network. Scientific Reports 13:1 DOI logo
Romero-Trillo, Jesús & Irina Rozina
2023. Is there justice in this world? A cross-cultural pragmatic analysis of the conceptualisation of ‘justice’. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 18:1  pp. 62 ff. DOI logo
Arab, Reza
2022. Cultural semantics of the ‘salt’ word in Persian. International Journal of Language and Culture 9:1  pp. 119 ff. DOI logo
Borin, Lars, Markus Forsberg, Lennart Lönngren & Niklas Zechner
2021. Chapter 3. Swedish FrameNet++ – lexical samsara. In The Swedish FrameNet++ [Natural Language Processing, 14],  pp. 69 ff. DOI logo
Borin, Lars, Anju Saxena, Shafqat Mumtaz Virk & Bernard Comrie
2021. Chapter 6. Swedish FrameNet++ and comparative linguistics. In The Swedish FrameNet++ [Natural Language Processing, 14],  pp. 139 ff. DOI logo
Girnyk , Andriy, Yuliya Krylova-Grek & Azizuddin Khan
2021. A Psycholinguistic Cross-Cultural Study of the Concept 'Conflict' in India and Ukraine. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 8:2 DOI logo
Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko & Gian Marco Farese
2020. In Staunch Pursuit: The Semantics of the Japanese Terms Shūkatsu ‘Job Hunting’ and Konkatsu ‘Marriage Partner Hunting’. In Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication,  pp. 17 ff. DOI logo
Karlsson, Susanna
2020. The Meanings of List Constructions: Explicating Interactional Polysemy. In Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication,  pp. 223 ff. DOI logo
Sadow, Lauren & Kerry Mullan
2020. A Brief Introduction to the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach. In Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication,  pp. 13 ff. DOI logo
Wakefield, John C.
2020. Evidence via Cantonese. In Intonational Morphology [Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics, ],  pp. 55 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff, Maite Taboada & Radoslava Trnavac
2019. The semantics of evaluational adjectives. Functions of Language 26:3  pp. 308 ff. DOI logo
Wakefield, John C. & Hung Yuk Lee
2019. The Grammaticalization of Indirect Reports: The Cantonese Discourse Particle wo5. In Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 19],  pp. 333 ff. DOI logo
Šipka, Danko
2019. Lexical Layers of Identity, DOI logo
Martín Arista, Javier
2018. The semantic poles of Old English: Toward the 3D representation of complex polysemy. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 33:1  pp. 96 ff. DOI logo
Sizemore, Ann E., Elisabeth A. Karuza, Chad Giusti & Danielle S. Bassett
2018. Knowledge gaps in the early growth of semantic feature networks. Nature Human Behaviour 2:9  pp. 682 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna & Cliff Goddard
2018. Talking about our Bodies and their Parts in Warlpiri. Australian Journal of Linguistics 38:1  pp. 31 ff. DOI logo
Levisen, Carsten & Kristoffer Friis Bøegh
2017. Chapter 13. Cognitive creolistics and semantic primes. In Creole Studies – Phylogenetic Approaches,  pp. 293 ff. DOI logo
Farese, Gian Marco
2016. The Cultural Semantics of the Japanese Emotion Terms 'Haji' and 'Hazukashii'. New Voices in Japanese Studies 8  pp. 32 ff. DOI logo
GLADKOVA, ANNA, ULLA VANHATALO & CLIFF GODDARD
2016. The semantics of interjections: An experimental study with natural semantic metalanguage. Applied Psycholinguistics 37:4  pp. 841 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff, Anna Wierzbicka & Jock Wong
2016. “Walking” and “running” in English and German. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:2  pp. 303 ff. DOI logo
Mateo Mendaza, Raquel
2016. The Old English Exponent for the Semantic Prime MOVE*. Australian Journal of Linguistics 36:4  pp. 542 ff. DOI logo
Wong, Jock
2016. The Pragmatics of Kéyĭ (“Can”) in Singapore Mandarin. In Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 4],  pp. 857 ff. DOI logo
Wong, Jock
2016. A Critical Look at the Description of Speech Acts. In Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 4],  pp. 825 ff. DOI logo
Burridge, Kate & Tonya N. Stebbins
2015. For the Love of Language, DOI logo
Hong, Jung-Hong & Chiao-Ling Kuo
2015. A semi-automatic lightweight ontology bridging for the semantic integration of cross-domain geospatial information. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 29:12  pp. 2223 ff. DOI logo
Sullivan, Karen
2015. If you study a word do you use it more often? Lexical repetition priming in a corpus of Natural Semantic Metalanguage publications. Corpora 10:3  pp. 277 ff. DOI logo
Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko
2014. Japanese interpretations of “pain” and the use of psychomimes. International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2  pp. 216 ff. DOI logo
Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko
2014. Linguistic manifestation of gender reinforcement through the use of the Japanese term kawaii. Gender and Language 8:3  pp. 341 ff. DOI logo
Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko
2016. Being ‘indecisive’ in Japanese. Studies in Language 40:1  pp. 63 ff. DOI logo
Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko
2016. Japanese interpretations of “pain” and the use of psychomimes. In "Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures [Benjamins Current Topics, 84],  pp. 87 ff. DOI logo
Asano-Cavanagh, Yuko
2017. Chapter 9. Kawaii discourse. In Cultural Keywords in Discourse [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 277],  pp. 211 ff. DOI logo
Baider, Fabienne
2014. Bad feelings in context. In Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 241],  pp. 189 ff. DOI logo
Baider, Fabienne & Georgeta Cislaru
2014. Linguistic approaches to emotion in context. In Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 241],  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye
2014. Exploring “happiness” and “pain” across languages and cultures. International Journal of Language and Culture 1:2  pp. 131 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff & Zhengdao Ye
2016. Exploring “happiness” and “pain” across languages and cultures. In "Happiness" and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures [Benjamins Current Topics, 84],  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Fähndrich, Johannes
2013. Best First Search Planning of Service Composition Using Incrementally Refined Context-Dependent Heuristics. In Multiagent System Technologies [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8076],  pp. 404 ff. DOI logo
Levisen, Carsten
2013. On Pigs and People: The Porcine Semantics of Danish Interaction and Cognition. Australian Journal of Linguistics 33:3  pp. 344 ff. DOI logo
Gladkova, Anna
2012. Grammar and the Influence of Society and Culture. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, DOI logo
Gladkova, Anna
2016. Propositional Attitudes and Cultural Scripts. In Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society [Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 4],  pp. 329 ff. DOI logo
Gladkova, Anna
2020. When Value Words Cross Cultural Borders: English Tolerant Versus Russian Tolerantnyj. In Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication,  pp. 73 ff. DOI logo
Silva, Zuzanna Bułat
2012. Saudade – a Key Portuguese Emotion. Emotion Review 4:2  pp. 203 ff. DOI logo
Bromhead, Helen
2011. The Bushin Australian English. Australian Journal of Linguistics 31:4  pp. 445 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff & Anna Wierzbicka
2011. Semantics and cognition. WIREs Cognitive Science 2:2  pp. 125 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff & Anna Wierzbicka
2014. Semantic fieldwork and lexical universals. Studies in Language 38:1  pp. 80 ff. DOI logo
Habib, Sandy
2011. Ghosts,Fairies,Elves, andNymphs: Towards a Semantic Template for Non-Human Being Concepts. Australian Journal of Linguistics 31:4  pp. 411 ff. DOI logo
Habib, Sandy
2014. Dying in the Cause of God: The Semantics of the Christian and Muslim Concepts ofMartyr. Australian Journal of Linguistics 34:3  pp. 388 ff. DOI logo
Habib, Sandy
2022. On the verge of extinction: the semantics, pragmatics, and etymology of eight endangered similes in Jish Arabic. Intercultural Pragmatics 19:4  pp. 513 ff. DOI logo
Habib, Sandy
2023. Tense-aspect constructions in Jish Arabic: Morphological, syntactic, and semantic features. Russian Journal of Linguistics 27:2  pp. 363 ff. DOI logo
Stock, Kristin & Claudia Cialone
2011. Universality, Language-Variability and Individuality: Defining Linguistic Building Blocks for Spatial Relations. In Spatial Information Theory [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6899],  pp. 391 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff
2009. The ‘Communication Concept’ and the ‘Language Concept’ in Everyday English. Australian Journal of Linguistics 29:1  pp. 11 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff
2013. The Semantic Roots and Cultural Grounding of ‘Social Cognition’. Australian Journal of Linguistics 33:3  pp. 245 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff
2014. Interjections and Emotion (with Special Reference to “Surprise” and “Disgust”). Emotion Review 6:1  pp. 53 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff
2014. Author Reply. Emotion Review 6:1  pp. 66 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff
2014. On “Disgust”. In Linguistic Approaches to Emotions in Context [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 241],  pp. 73 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff
2015. The complex, language-specific semantics of “surprise”. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:2  pp. 291 ff. DOI logo
Goddard, Cliff
2024. ‘Long’, ‘flat’, ‘round’, ‘hard’, ‘heavy’, ‘sharp’. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 11:2  pp. 251 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2008. Correspondence. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14:4  pp. 887 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2009. What makes a good life? A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. The Journal of Positive Psychology 4:4  pp. 260 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2009. Exploring English Phraseology with Two Tools. Journal of English Linguistics 37:2  pp. 101 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2009. Overcoming Anglocentrism in Emotion Research. Emotion Review 1:1  pp. 21 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2010. Lexical universals of kinship and social cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33:5  pp. 403 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2010. The “History of Emotions” and the Future of Emotion Research. Emotion Review 2:3  pp. 269 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2011. Defining ‘the humanities’. Culture & Psychology 17:1  pp. 31 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2011. Arguing in Russian: Why Solzhenitsyn’s Fictional Arguments Defy Translation. Russian Journal of Communication 4:1-2  pp. 8 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2012. Is Pain a Human Universal? A Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspective on Pain. Emotion Review 4:3  pp. 307 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2015. A whole cloud of culture condensed into a drop of semantics. International Journal of Language and Culture 2:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2016. Making sense of terms of address in European languages through the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM). Intercultural Pragmatics 13:4  pp. 499 ff. DOI logo
Wierzbicka, Anna
2017. Gdy skrypty kulturowe wchodzą w kolizję: Nieporozumienia komunikacyjne w „wielokulturowej” Australii. In Lingwistyka kulturowa i międzykulturowa. Antologia, DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 2 november 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
ONIX Metadata
ONIX 2.1
ONIX 3.0
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2008006977 | Marc record