Semantics, Culture and Cognition: Universal Human Concepts in Culture-specific Configurations - Hardcover

Wierzbicka, Anna

9780195073256: Semantics, Culture and Cognition: Universal Human Concepts in Culture-specific Configurations

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ISBN 10: 0195073258 ISBN 13: 9780195073256

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1992

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In this study, Wierzbicka ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures, attempting to identify concepts which are truly universal, while at the same time arguing that every language constitutes a different 'guide to reality'. The author demonstrates that the lexicons of different languages suggest different conceptual universes.

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Excellent cross-linguistic, cross-cultural penetration into how the mind works. Fascinating analysis of language as a mirror into the workings of the human soul. (Richard L. Wright, Howard University)

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