{"product_id":"semantics-culture-and-cognition-universal-human-concepts-in-culture-specific-configurations-9780195073263","title":"Semantics, Culture, and Cognition: Universal Human Concepts in Culture-Specific Configurations","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anna Wierzbicka\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Semantics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot 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 and proposes instead a \"natural semantic metalanguage\" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals. The outcome of two and a half decades of research, the metalanguage is made up of universal semantic primitives in terms of which all meanings--including the most culture-specific ones--can be described and compared in a precise and illuminating way. Integrating insights from linguistics, cultural anthropology, and cognitive psychology, and written in simple, non-technical language, \u003cem\u003eSemantics, Culture, and Cognition\u003c\/em\u003e is accessible not only to scholars and students, but also to the general reader interested in semantics and the relationship between language and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615023382679,"sku":"9780195073263","price":10477.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195073263.webp?v=1775097891","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/semantics-culture-and-cognition-universal-human-concepts-in-culture-specific-configurations-9780195073263","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}