- Anna Wierzbicka
Anna Wierzbicka (born 1938) was born in
Poland and is a linguist at theAustralian National University .She is primarily known for her work in
semantics ,pragmatics , and cross-cultural linguistics and especially for theNatural Semantic Metalanguage .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/languages/linguistics/AnnaW.asp Wierzbicka's page at Australian National University]
* [http://www.une.edu.au/bcss/linguistics/nsm/wierzbicka.php Bibliography of Works by Anna Wierzbicka (in English)]
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