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Anna Wierzbicka [ˈʔanna vʲɛʐˈbʲitska] was born (1938) in Poland and is a linguist at the Australian National University.
She is primarily known for her work in semantics, pragmatics, and cross-cultural linguistics and especially for the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, particularly the concept of semantic primes.
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)
See also
External links
- Wierzbicka's page at Australian National University
- Bibliography of Works by Anna Wierzbicka (in English)
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