Words and meanings : lexical semantics across domains, languages, and cultures / Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goddard, Cliff.

Contributor:

Wierzbicka, Anna.

Series:

Oxford linguistics Words and meanings

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Lexicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon: concrete, abstract, physical sensory, emotional and social.

Contents:

Cover; Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures; Copyright; Contents; Authorship note; Acknowledgements; Tables and figures; 1: Words, meaning, and methodology; 1.1 Why words matter; 1.2 Words in 20th-century linguistics; 1.3 Universal words and the NSM methodology of semantic analysis; 1.4 Worlds of words; 2: Men, women, and children: The semantics of basic social categories; 2.1 The canonical example of lexical semantics?; 2.2 Methodology and metalanguage: componential analysis vs. NSM; 2.3 Semantic explications for basic social categories

Men, women, and childrenBabies, boys, and girls; Brief review; 2.4 Categories, prototypes, and stereotypes; Adjectives based on social category terms; 2.5 Cross-linguistic differences; Language-specific social categories; 2.6 Concluding remarks; 3: Sweet, hot, hard, heavy, rough, sharp: Physical-quality words in cross-linguistic perspective; 3.1 'Kinds', 'parts', and qualities; 3.2 Qualities based on taste: salty, sweet, sour; 3.3 "Temperature words": hot, cold, and warm; 3.4 Rough and smooth; 3.5 Hard and soft; 3.6 Heavy and light; 3.7 Sharp; 3.8 Metaphorical extensions: Polish vs. English

3.9 Concluding remarks4: From "colour words" to visual semantics: English, Russian, Warlpiri; 4.1 'Colour semantics' vs. 'visual semantics'; 4.2 'Blue' and its two Russian counterparts; 4.3 Languages without a "colour concept": an illustration; 4.4 The Warlpiri visual world; The main features: an overview; Visual conspicuousness; Things shining somewhere at some time; Visual patterns and contrasts within an object; Visual semantics and visual discourse: getting closer to "the native's point of view"; 4.5 Deconstructing the 'colour' concept; 4.6 Concluding remarks

5: Happiness and human values in cross-cultural and historical perspective5.1 Capturing a complex idea in simple and universal words; 5.2 Can happiness be a global concern?; 5.3 Can the Dalai Lama reconcile Buddhism with "a pursuit of happiness"?; 5.4 "Civilization and its discontents": English happiness vs. German Glück; 5.5 The semantic history of "happiness" Part I ("happiness" in England); 5.6 The semantic history of "happiness" Part II ("happiness" in America); 5.7 "Happiness" as an emotion; 5.8 "Happiness" and good fortune: English vs. French and Russian

5.9 Socrates on "happiness" and a good way to live6: Pain: is it a human universal? The perspective from cross-linguistic semantics; 6.1 The need for a multilingual and multicultural perspective on pain; 6.2 Problems with the official definition of 'pain'; 6.3 How can one ask questions about 'pain' helpfully and effectively?; 6.4 Pain and related concepts (hurt, ache, sore) in English; 6.5 No 'pain' concept in Australian Aboriginal languages?; 6.6 English pain vs. French douleur; 6.7 Comparing douleur with mal (avoir mal and faire mal); 6.8 Souffrir and suffer

6.9 English pain vs. Polish ból and Russian bol'

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-878355-8

0-19-164542-7

0-19-966843-4

OCLC:

869542461