Semantics, Culture, and Cognition

Semantics, Culture, and Cognition
Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1992
Genre: Intercultural communication
ISBN: 0195073266
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This study ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures in an attempt to identify concepts which are truly universal and to explore whether certain words are culture-specific.


Semantics, Culture, and Cognition
Language: en
Pages: 496

Semantics, Culture, and Cognition

Authors: Anna Wierzbicka
Categories: Intercultural communication
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This study ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures in an attempt to identify concepts which are truly universal and to explore whether certain wo
Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition
Language: en
Pages: 354

Cultural Semantics and Social Cognition

Authors: Carsten Levisen
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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Presenting original, detailed studies of keywords of Danish, this book breaks new ground for the study of language and cultural values. Based on evidence from t
Embodiment in Cognition and Culture
Language: en
Pages: 332

Embodiment in Cognition and Culture

Authors: John Michael Krois
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This volume shows that the notions of embodied or situated cognition, which have transformed the scientific study of intelligence have the potential to reorient
Historical Semantics and Cognition
Language: en
Pages: 320

Historical Semantics and Cognition

Authors: Andreas Blank
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-25 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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Contains revised papers from a September 1996 symposium which provided a forum for synchronically and diachronically oriented scholars to exchange ideas and for
“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition
Language: en
Pages: 196

“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition

Authors: Yanying Lu
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-18 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australi