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Words and meanings : lexical semantics across domains, languages, and cultures /
"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. They focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of langu...
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Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Oxford linguistics
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| Online Access: | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=SQH2AQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=words+and+meanings&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjso8Kg2N3LAhVDGY4KHcGaB4IQ6wEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=words%20and%20meanings&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- Words, Meaning, and Methodology
- Men, Women, and Children: The semantics of basic social categories
- Sweet, Hot, Hard, heavy, Rough, Sharp: Physical quality words in cross-linguistic perspective
- From Colour Words to Visual Semantics: English, Russian, Warlpiri
- Happiness and Human Values in Cross-cultural and Historical Perspective
- Pain Is it a Human Universal? The Perspective From Cross-linguistic Semantics
- Suggesting, Apologising, Complimenting: English speech act verbs
- A Stitch in Time and The Way of The Rice Plant: The semantics of proverbs in English and Malay
- The Meaning of Abstract Nouns: Locke, Bentham and Contemporary Semantics
- Broader Perspectives: Beyond lexical semantics.