Anna Wierzbicka (b. 1938) was born in Poland and is a linguist at the Australian National University. Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields The Australian National University, commonly abbreviated to ANU, is a public Research university situated in Canberra, Australia.
She is primarily known for her work in semantics, pragmatics, and cross-cultural linguistics and especially for the Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Semantics is the study of meaning in communication The word derives from Greek σημαντικός ( semantikos) "significant" from Pragmatics is the study of the ability of Natural language speakers to communicate more than that which is explicitly stated Anthropological linguistics is the study of the relations between language and culture and the relations between human biology cognition and language The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM is an approach to semantic analysis based on reductive paraphrase (that is breaking concepts/words down into combinations of simpler
Books
- English: Meaning and culture(2006). ISBN 0195174747
- What Did Jesus Mean? Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in simple and universal human concepts (2001)
- Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and universals (1999)
- Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, Japanese (1997)
- Semantics: Primes and Universals (1996)
- Semantics, Culture and Cognition: Universal human concepts in culture-specific configurations (1992)
- Cross-cultural pragmatics: The semantics of human interaction (1991)
- The Semantics of Grammar (1988)
- English Speech Act Verbs: A semantic dictionary (1987)
- Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis (1985)
- The Case for Surface Case (1980)
- Lingua Mentalis: The semantics of natural language (1980)
- Semantic Primitives (1972)
External links
- http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/arts_fac/staff/wierzbicka.html - Wierzbicka's page at ANU
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