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Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words (English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese): ANNA WIERZBICKA
Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words (English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese)
Author: ANNA WIERZBICKA
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication date: 1997
ISBN: 0-19-508835-2
Number of pages: 328
Format / Quality: pdf-zipped-excellent quality
Size: 19,1MB
In this groundbreaking book, Wierzbicka demonstrates that every language has its "key concepts" and that these key concepts reflect the core values of the culture. Further, she argues that within a culture-independent analytical framework one can study, compare, and even explain cultures to outsiders through their key concepts. The framework Wierzbicka proposes is the well-known "natural semantic metalanguage" that she developed with her colleagues. For this study, Wierzbicka focuses on four languages and cultures: Japanese, Australian English, Polish, and Russian. She identifies "culture laden" words in each of these languages; these words are, in a sense, "untranslatable." She shows, however, that the words can be "explained" by means of the semantic metalanguage's hypothetical semantic primitives such as someone, something, do, happen, want, say, know, think, good, bad , etc.

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