Anna Wierzbicka, Words and the World

Gladkova, Anna; Larina, Tatiana

doi:10.22363/2312-9182-2018-22-3-499-520

Cited by 27 publications

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“…Среди «семантических примитивов», универсальных элементарных понятий, комбинации которых позволяют создавать многочисленные уникальные для каждого языка и культуры конфигурации (см. Gladkova, Larina 2018;Goddard, Wierzbicka 1994, Wierzbicka 1994 и др. ), А. Вежбицкая использует, в частности, и данные языков Папуа -Новой Гвинеи.…”

Section: рецензии и обзорыunclassified

Review of Gunter Senft, 2017. Imdeduya: Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. Culture and Language Use. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics. Vol. 20. Аmsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 262 p

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Александровна²,

Пивоварчик

et al. 2019

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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Section: рецензии и обзорыunclassified

Review of Gunter Senft, 2017. Imdeduya: Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. Culture and Language Use. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics. Vol. 20. Аmsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 262 p

Pilgun

Александровна²,

Пивоварчик

et al. 2019

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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“…2 The most frequent case is unidirectional shift (A→B), other possibilities being bidirectional shifts (A↔B) and the shifts for which we cannot specify direction (A-B); see for more detail Zalizniak et al 2012: 647. 3 On the use of NSM in cross-linguistic semantic studies see Wierzbicka 1992, Goddard and Wierzbicka 1994, Gladkova 2005, Goddard 2008, Gladkova, Larina 2018 in the meaning being considered. Additionally, we constantly revise and adjust the sets of sematic labels, semantic shifts, and their realizations as the work on the database progresses.…”

Section: Semantic Shift As Extended Polysemymentioning

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The Catalogue of Semantic Shifts: 20 Years Later

Zalizniak¹,

Андреевна²

2018

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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The article summarizes the goals and the current state of the Catalogue of sematic shifts (CSSh), its primary notions being those of a semantic shift, which is understood as a relation of cognitive proximity between two linguistic meanings, and a realization of a semantic shift, i.e. one polysemic word or a pair of cognate words of the same language or different languages that act as "exponents" of this relation. The typology of semantic shifts occupies a position at the crossroad of semantic, lexical and grammatical typologies, overlapping each of these areas of study in terms of linguistic data and methods used; however, the domain of CSSh does not coincide with any of them. The framework of CSSh provides the theoretical foundation for identifying recurring cross-linguistic semantic shifts, and collecting them in the Database of Semantic Shifts for further analysis. The article demonstrates that the notion of semantic shift as defined in CSSh is just a formalization of an instrument of linguistic analysis that is already quite common in various areas of linguistics. Semantic shift provides a basis for the notion of semantic parallel used in the historical linguistics and etymology, for motivational models in word-formation, it is a central notion for grammaticalization theory; finally, semantic shift is one of various types of implicit meanings (along with presuppositions and connotations) that shape the "linguistic model of the world". Linguistic data contained in the Database of Semantic Shifts can be used in all these areas, in order to provide semantic plausibility criteria for linguistic reconstruction, to act as empirical evidence for cognitive mechanisms of linguistic conceptualization, to aid in identifying specific features of the semantic system of a given language or group of languages.

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“…В-четвертых, в каждом языке есть слова, в которых заключено богатство культуры, и они имеют статус ключевых слов культуры (Вежбицкая 2001a). В-пятых, значение слова может быть интерпретировано (Gladkova, Larina 2018). В-шестых, семантический компонент заключает в себе информацию, относящуюся к культурному пласту того или иного сообщества (Wierzbicka 2015: 2).…”

Section: лингвокультурологический анализ слова как практическое воплоunclassified

A word in the context of a cultural and historical universe: Some case studies from the US political discourse

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Chanysheva

2018

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Lingvist.

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The article examines cultural semantics of lexical units of the English language through the prism of Anna Wierzbicka's views. The article focuses on the lexical units like whistle-blower, kangaroo ticket, log cabin president, Camelot presidency, redneck, etc., which along with the lexical meaning fixed in the dictionary, are able to generate various cultural meanings. The analysis of lexical units is made in accordance with the concept of the cultural-historical universe by Anna Wierzbicka. The approach to the analysis of lexical units within the framework of this concept stems from the understanding of the lexical unit as a sign of culture. Accordingly, the semantic analysis of lexical units is based on different levels of culture. A variety of subcultures and countercultures are also taken into account (everyday, political, industrial; gender, age, professional; dominant, elitist, mass, folk, marginal). The cultural universe is treated as a sort of intertext, i.e., an open cultural space with mobile boundaries. The analysis takes into account the dynamics of the cultural universe by comparing the data of different historical sections. This procedure of interpreting the meanings makes it possible to reach the core of the culture of the linguistic cultural community, on the one hand, and on the other to reveal its dynamics. The analysis discloses later semantic layers in word semantics that reflect the formation of new values in society. The search for cultural meanings is of undoubted interest for linguists working in the field of lexical semantics, linguoculturology, discourse analysis, since it exposes cultural practices and cultural codes of a certain linguistic and cultural community.

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Anna Wierzbicka, Words and the World

Cited by 27 publications

References 10 publications

Review of Gunter Senft, 2017. Imdeduya: Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. Culture and Language Use. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics. Vol. 20. Аmsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 262 p

Review of Gunter Senft, 2017. Imdeduya: Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. Culture and Language Use. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics. Vol. 20. Аmsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 262 p

The Catalogue of Semantic Shifts: 20 Years Later

A word in the context of a cultural and historical universe: Some case studies from the US political discourse

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