Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures

by Anna Wierzbicka (Author), Cliff Goddard (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $204.44

  This book presents cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigations of word meaning from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The words they consider are complex, culturally important, and basic, in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay.