Words And Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, And Cultures

This book presents cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigations of word meaning from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The words they consider are complex, culturally important, and basic, in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay.

• | Author: Cliff Goddard|Anna Wierzbicka
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 28, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0199668434
• | ISBN-13: 9780199668434