Anna Wierzbicka
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"Two twentieth-century American linguists have been particularly influential in shaping a "linguistics without meaning": Leonard Bloomfield and Noam Chomsky." --Semantics: Primes and Universals, 1996, Anna Wierzbicka |
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Anna Wierzbicka (born 10 March 1938 in Warsaw) is a Polish linguist who is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra. Brought up in Poland, she graduated from Warsaw University and emigrated to Australia in 1972, where she has lived since. With over twenty published books, many of which were translated into foreign languages, she is a prolific writer.
Wierzbicka is known for her work in semantics, pragmatics and cross-cultural linguistics, especially for the natural semantic metalanguage and the concept of semantic primes. Her research agenda resembles Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's original "alphabet of human thought". Wierzbicka credits her colleague, linguist Andrzej Bogusławski, with reviving it in the late 1960s.
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- (co-authored with Cliff Goddard) Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures. Oxford UP (2014). *Imprisoned in English. The Hazards of English As a Default Language, Oxford UP 2013.
- Experience, Evidence, and Sense: The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English (2010).
- English: Meaning and culture (2006).
- 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
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Cultural anthropology - Wilhelm von Humboldt - Pragmatics - List of linguists - Natural semantic metalanguage - Ethnolinguistics - Linguistic universal - Timeline of Polish science and technology - Abraham Mitrie Rihbany - Psychological anthropology - Linguistic discrimination - No worries - Cliff Goddard - Semantic primes - Burarra - Hopi time controversy
