Ten lectures on natural semantic metalanguage exploring language, thought and culture using simple, translatable words / by Cliff Goddard.
| Author/creator | Goddard, Cliff |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] |
| Description | ix, 361 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics, 2468-4872 ; 21 |
| Contents | From Leibniz to Wierzbicka: The history and philosophy of nsm -- Semantic primes and their grammar -- Explicating emotion concepts across languages and cultures -- Wonderful, terrific, fabulous: English evaluational adjectives -- Semantic molecules and semantic complexity -- Words as carriers of cultural meaning -- English verb semantics: verbs of doing and saying -- English verb alternations and constructions -- Applications of NSM: minimal English, cultural scripts and language -- Teaching retrospect: nsm compared with other approaches to semantic analysis. |
| General note | These lectures, were delivered at China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics, December 2016, and reflect the author's conviction that the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach can be rightly seen as a part of the cognitive linguistics movement. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017054588 |
| ISBN | 9789004357709 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (e-book) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |