| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Contents |
Introduction; 1. Soul, Mind, and Heart; 2. Fate and Destiny; 3. Are Emotions Universal or Culture-Specific?; 4. Describing the Indescribable; 5. Apatheia, Smirenie, Humility; 6. Courage, Bravery, Recklessness; 7. Personal Names and Expressive Derivation; 8. Titles and Other Forms of Address; 9. Lexical Universals and Psychological Reality; 10. 'Alternate Generations' in Australian Aboriginal Languages; 11. Australian English; 12. The Russian Language; Postscript; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
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 and a half decades of research, the metalanguage is made up of universal semantic primitives in terms of which all meanings--including the most cul |
| Subject |
Linguistic universals.
|
|
Semantics.
|
|
Language and culture.
|
|
Intercultural communication.
|
|
Psycholinguistics.
|
|
semantics.
|
|
psycholinguistics.
|
|
Intercultural communication
|
|
Language and culture
|
|
Linguistic universals
|
|
Psycholinguistics
|
|
Semantics
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
0195360915 |
|
9780195360912 |
|
