wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage: Exploring language, thought and culture using simple, translatable words
ISBN: 9789004357709 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This lively lecture series by a leading expert introduces the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and well-developed approach to cross-linguistic semantics: the NSM approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka. Topics include: history and philosophy of the study of meaning, semantic primes and molecules, emotions, evaluation, verbs and event structure, cultural key words and scripts. Case studies come from English, Chinese, Danish, and other languages. Applications in language teaching and intercultural education are also covered, along with comparisons between NSM and other...
This lively lecture series by a leading expert introduces the theory, practice and application of a versatile, rigorous and well-developed approach to...
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469,71 zł |
The Languages of East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780199248605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It combines serious but accessible treatments of diverse areas not usually found in a single volume: for example, word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems, communicative style. Written with great clarity and an eye for interesting examples, the book is a textbook for students of linguistics, Asian languages, and Asian studies.
This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It combines serious but accessible treatments of diver...
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267,25 zł |
Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context
ISBN: 9783110188745 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is distinctive about these particular ways of speaking?', but also: 'Why - from their own point of view - do the people concerned speak in these particular ways? What sense does it make to them?'. The ethnopragmatic approach stands in opposition to the culture-external universalist pragmatics represented by...
The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of t...
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478,18 zł |
Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication Using Fewer Words
ISBN: 9783319625119 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues.
This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numer...
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466,91 zł |
Semantic Analysis: A Practical Introduction
ISBN: 9780199560288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This lively textbook introduces students and scholars to practical and precise methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and for revealing connections between language and culture. Topics range over emotions, speech acts, words for animals and artifacts, motion, activity verbs, causatives, discourse particles, and nonverbal communication. Alongside English, it features a wide range of other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Australian Aboriginal languages. Undergraduates, graduate students and professional linguists alike will benefit from...
This lively textbook introduces students and scholars to practical and precise methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and for r...
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227,81 zł |
Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication Using Fewer Words
ISBN: 9783319873329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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466,91 zł |
Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures
ISBN: 9780199668434 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri, and Malay. Some are basic like men, women, and children or abstract nouns like trauma and violence; others describe qualities such as hot, hard, and rough, emotions like happiness and sadness, or feelings like pain. They ground their...
In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the ...
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720,21 zł |
The Languages of East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780199273119 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It combines serious but accessible treatments of diverse areas not usually found in a single volume: for example, word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems, communicative style. Written with great clarity and an eye for interesting examples, the book is a textbook for students of linguistics, Asian languages, and Asian studies.
This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It combines serious but accessible treatments of diver...
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375,56 zł |
Minimal Languages in Action
ISBN: 9783030640767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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389,09 zł |
Cross-Linguistic Semantics
ISBN: 9789027205698 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Cross-linguistic semantics investigating how languages package and express meanings differently is central to the linguistic quest to understand the nature of human language. This set of studies explores and demonstrates cross-linguistic semantics as practised in the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework, originated by Anna Wierzbicka. The opening chapters give a state-of-the-art overview of the NSM model, propose several theoretical innovations and advance a number of original analyses in connection with names and naming, clefts and other specificational sentences, and discourse...
Cross-linguistic semantics investigating how languages package and express meanings differently is central to the linguistic quest to understand the n...
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690,65 zł |
Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures
ISBN: 9780198783558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri, and Malay. Some are basic like men, women, and children or abstract nouns like trauma and violence; others describe qualities such as hot, hard, and rough, emotions like happiness and sadness, or feelings like pain. They ground their...
In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the ...
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232,73 zł |
"Happiness" and "Pain" Across Languages and Cultures
ISBN: 9789027242723 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philosophy, medicine, and economics, this volume provides a much-needed cross-linguistic perspective. It centres on the question of how much ways of talking and thinking about happiness and pain vary across cultures, and seeks to answer this question by empirically examining the core vocabulary pertaining to "happiness" and "pain" in many languages and in different religious and cultural traditions. The authors not only probe the precise meanings of...
In the fast-growing fields of happiness studies and pain research, which have attracted scholars from diverse disciplines including psychology, philos...
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485,51 zł |
Ethno-Epistemology: New Directions for Global Epistemology
ISBN: 9780367458430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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701,59 zł |