Semantics, Culture, and Cognition : Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations
Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo culture and proposes instead a ""natural semantic metalanguage"" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals. The outcome of two and a half decades of research, the metalanguage is made up of universal semantic primitives in terms of which all meanings--including the most c
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9780195360912, 0195360915
1048571359
Introduction
1. Soul, Mind, and Heart
2. Fate and Destiny
3. Are Emotions Universal or Culture-Specific?
4. Describing the Indescribable
5. Apatheia, Smirenie, Humility
6. Courage, Bravery, Recklessness
7. Personal Names and Expressive Derivation
8. Titles and Other Forms of Address
9. Lexical Universals and Psychological Reality
10. 'Alternate Generations' in Australian Aboriginal Languages
11. Australian English
12. The Russian Language
Postscript
Notes
References
Index
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L. M
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