Words and Meanings Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures |
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| Author:
| Goddard, Cliff
Wierzbicka, Anna |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-966843-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $229.09AUD $318.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.