Wierzbicka Anna. Emotional Universals

Oxford University Press. 2014. — 352 pages. — ISBN: 0199668434 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...

John Benjamins. Amsterdam / Philadelphia. 1994. — 518 pages. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 25). — Includes index. — ISBN: 9027230285, 1556193777; ISBN13: 9789027230287, 9781556193774 This set of papers represents a unique collection; it is the first attempt ever to empirically test a hypothetical set of semantic and lexical universals across a number of genetically...

New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. — 328 p. ISBN: 0-19-508835-2. 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...

Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 349 с. Annotation In this ground-breaking book, Anna Wierzbicka brings psychological, anthropological and lingusitic insights to bear on our understanding of the way emotions are expressed and experienced in different cultures, languages, and social relations. The expression of emotion in the face, body and modes of speech are all explored...

Oxford University Press, 1992. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0195073266. Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo culture...

2-е издание, исправленное и дополненное. — М.: Языки русской культуры; Издательская фирма «Восточная литература» РАН, 1995. — VIII, 472 с. — ISBN: 5-88766-043-0, ISBN: 5-02-017906-Х. В монографии предлагаются элементы семантического языка для описания смысла слоя естественного языка. На этой основе выполнено описание синонимически средств языка (словообразования, регулярной...