Analysis of Kinship Terms Using Natural Semantic Metalanguage: Anna Wierzbicka’s Approach

Kotorova, Elizaveta

doi:10.22363/2312-9182-2018-22-3-701-710

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“…In the light of the above-mentioned discussion, one can understand the interrelationship between forms of address and politeness, i.e., politeness concepts and notions can be recognized through the prism of address behavior and its rules in a given speech community (e.g. Kotorova, 2018, Rhee, 2019, Wierzbicka, 2016. For instance, point out that the use of Arabic kinship terms of address, depending on age and gender factors, to address older strangers shows the "we" orientation (Larina & Ozyumenko, 2016, Larina, et al 2017) and large power distance of Arabs, i.e., it shows respect and closeness.…”

Section: Politeness Cultural Values and Address Formsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Values and Norms of Communication: A View From the Middle East

Khosh¹,

Khalil²,

Alhaded³

2020

Proceedings of ADVED 2020- 6th International Conference on Advances in Education

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Cultural knowledge is an important component of intercultural communicative competence which is fundamental for the second language acquisition. It is essential for the development of sociocultural, pragmatic, and communicative competences of second language learners. Cultural values of any community pilot how people interact with one another. To put it differently, they form understanding of politeness which being a universal phenomenon differs across cultures and shape communicative styles. The present study analyzes three Middle Eastern cultures (Persian, Syrian and Jordanian) and seeks to demonstrate how Muslim values and notions of politeness construct the norms of interpersonal interactions. The paper is limited to the speech act of address in the settings of family, acquaintances and strangers. The data for the study were collected from two questionnaires, serial television drama, YouTube social experiments as well as ethnographic observations. They were examined drawing on (im)politeness theory, speech act theory, discourse analysis, research on identity construction and cultural studies. The paper highlights some communicative specificities of the three Middle Eastern lingua-cultures concerning address forms and their usage and shows how they are predetermined by culture and cultural values. Our findings confirm the fact that communicative styles in collectivistic Muslim cultures are status-oriented, the individuals of these cultures demonstrate a remarkable vertical distance and highly regard status and age. Our results manifest that the principals of identity primarily emerging from Muslims" holy book "Quran" are the basis of politeness norms in Persian, Syrian and Jordanian communicative cultures and indicate that linguistic politeness in these cultural contexts are strongly established on showing respect in addressing older people. The findings of the research may help foster intercultural communications if employed in second language teaching classes and may have significant implications in translation studies and practice.

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Section: Politeness Cultural Values and Address Formsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural Values and Norms of Communication: A View From the Middle East

Khosh¹,

Khalil²,

Alhaded³

2020

Proceedings of ADVED 2020- 6th International Conference on Advances in Education

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“…Goddard (2014) views the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) as a decomposition system of meaning representation based on empirically established universal semantic primes, i.e., simple indefinable meanings which appear to be present as word meanings in all languages. Wierzbicka further discussed that The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) (Kotorova, 2018) is a mini-language that corresponds to the shared core of all languages. It has as many versions as there are languages in the world; for example, there is an English NSM, a Polish NSM, an Indonesian NSM, and so on.…”

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Balinese Emotion Lexicons: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach

Sudipa

2022

int. j. linguist. Sumat. malay.

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Academics are always interested in debating the study of emotions across cultures and languages. This is due to the diverse ways that emotions can be expressed in different contexts and situations in each language and culture. This article aims to discuss the meaning of Balinese Lexicons dealing with emotions. The theory applied is Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) with two at once approaches, namely mapping and explication. The results showed that there is something good happened, represented by the lexicons: demen, kendel, and lédang, and something bad happened: sebet, inguh, and gedeg. The most interesting findings are the lexicon angob ‘surprise’ having semantic feature of something good might happen and ngon ‘surprise’ due to the something bad might happen. This can be inferred that there is an in-between position, not something good nor bad happened in the concerned Balinese emotion lexicons.

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‘Whose father are you?’ Arabic teknonyms in a socio-pragmatic perspective

Khalil,

Larina

2024

Language & Communication

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Analysis of Kinship Terms Using Natural Semantic Metalanguage: Anna Wierzbicka’s Approach

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Cultural Values and Norms of Communication: A View From the Middle East

Cultural Values and Norms of Communication: A View From the Middle East

Balinese Emotion Lexicons: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach

‘Whose father are you?’ Arabic teknonyms in a socio-pragmatic perspective

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