Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction

by Anna Wierzbicka

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction

515 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Anna Wierzbicka is Professor of Linguistics at Australian National University. Her many books include Semantics: Primes and Universals (OUP 1996), Emotions across Languages and Cultures (CUP 1999), and Experience, Evidence & Sense: The hidden cultural legacy of English (OUP 2010). Professors Goddard and Wierzbicka are co-editors of two collective volumes: Semantic and Lexical Universals and Meaning and Universal Grammar (John Benjamins, 1994 and 2002).

Reviews

[Rima Muryantina · Rating 5 out of 5]

An awesome book written by my favourite linguist and my favourite lecturer, Prof. Anna Wierzbicka.

I like the way she put so many examples from languages around the world to see different culture from the insiders' point of view. NSM really is a powerful theory!

And I like reading the meaningful ramble in her introductory note! haha. it's fun to read how a inguist struggles so that her theory could be accepted world-wide.