Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and JapaneseOxford University Press, 1997 - 317 páginas This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has "key concepts," expressed in "key words," which reflect the core values of agiven culture. She shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared, and explained to outsiders through their key concepts, and that the analytical framework necessary for this purpose is provided by the "natural semantic metalanguage," based on lexical universals, that the author andcolleagues have developed on the basis of wide-ranging cross-linguistic investigations. Appealing to anthropologists, psychologists, and philosophers as well as linguists, this book demonstrates that cultural patterns can be studied in a verifiable, rigorous, and non-speculative way, on the basis ofempirical evidence and in a coherent theoretical framework. |
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... close friend , which though difficult to date , is definitely modern . Among more than two hundred classical quotations including the word friend in Stevenson's ( 1949 ) Book of quotations , not a single one includes the expression close ...
... close friend , which though difficult to date , is definitely modern . Among more than two hundred classical quotations including the word friend in Stevenson's ( 1949 ) Book of quotations , not a single one includes the expression close ...
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... close friends " does not represent ( from the speaker's point of view ) an attack on the current use of the word friend ; rather , it establishes a new category including a special subset of the broader category . " Close friends " are ...
... close friends " does not represent ( from the speaker's point of view ) an attack on the current use of the word friend ; rather , it establishes a new category including a special subset of the broader category . " Close friends " are ...
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... close acquaintances , aided by their proximity and the long time period , often years , in which they have to build relationships and engage in exchange . Hence there are “ close ” and “ distant ” acquaintances , as well as long - term ...
... close acquaintances , aided by their proximity and the long time period , often years , in which they have to build relationships and engage in exchange . Hence there are “ close ” and “ distant ” acquaintances , as well as long - term ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Cultural elaboration and the lexicon | 10 |
Culturea perilous idea? | 17 |
Direitos de autor | |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
adjective amae Anglo attitude Australian Aboriginal languages Australian culture Australian English bastard bloody bugger bullshit characteristic chiacking close friends collocations component concept context čto dictionary discussion drug druzja emotional English word enryo example explication expression fact Fatherland feel something bad freedom friendship German giri glosses Heimat human relations idea implies important Japan Japanese culture key words kind koledzy kolega language Lebra libertas liberty linguistic linked mateship meaning Morsbach natural semantic metalanguage noun obligation ojczyzna omoiyari one's phrase podruga Poland Polish language political polysemy prijatel przyjaciel quoted refers reflected relationship rodina rodnye roughly Russian language Russian word seishin semantic sense sentences shared social society solidarity someone Soviet speak suggests svoboda Szlachta TAND things to happen tovarišč traditional Australian Vaterland volja want bad things want to say whereas whinge Wierzbicka wolność word friend yarn znajomi