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Conceptual primitives and semantic universals are the cornerstones of a semantic theory which Anna Wierzbicka has been developing for many years. Semantics: Primes and Universals is a major synthesis of her work, presenting a full and systematic exposition of that theory in a non-technical and readable way. It delineates a full set of universal concepts, as they have emerged from large-scale investigations across a wide range of languages undertaken by the author and her colleagues. On the basis of empirical cross-linguistic studies it vindicates the old notion of the "psychic unity of mankind", while at the same time offering a framework for the rigorous description of different languages and cultures.
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Semantics : primes and universals, Anna Wierzbicka
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- Released
- 1996
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- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Semantics : primes and universals
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Anna Wierzbicka
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0198700032
- ISBN13
- 9780198700036
- Series
- Original title
- Semantics: Primes and Universals
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- Conceptual primitives and semantic universals are the cornerstones of a semantic theory which Anna Wierzbicka has been developing for many years. Semantics: Primes and Universals is a major synthesis of her work, presenting a full and systematic exposition of that theory in a non-technical and readable way. It delineates a full set of universal concepts, as they have emerged from large-scale investigations across a wide range of languages undertaken by the author and her colleagues. On the basis of empirical cross-linguistic studies it vindicates the old notion of the "psychic unity of mankind", while at the same time offering a framework for the rigorous description of different languages and cultures.