Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words - English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese

Zusatztext There is a lot to be gleaned from just about anything produced by Wierzbicka - the "key words book" [...] is no exception [...]. The observations are plentiful and fascinating [...]. [Wierzbicka] has done more than anyone else to really "understand cultures through their key words". Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Wierzbicka 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 languages, and using her own "natural semantic metalanguage" to provide an analytical framework, she shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared, and explained to outsiders through their key concepts. Zusammenfassung 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. It shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared and explained to outsiders through their key concepts.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Wierzbicka
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.1997
• EAN: 9780195088366
• ISBN: 978-0-19-508836-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Print on Demand; Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning; Japan, England, Cultural Studies, Russia, Germany, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Poland, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociolinguistics