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This collection explores the relationships between word meanings, cultural experience and everyday life through conversations with Anna Wierzbicka’s work. Contributors investigate how apparently familiar concepts vary across languages and examine the methods used to describe those differences.
Studies range from English climb and Dutch gezellig to Singlish bojio, Portuguese saudade, Japanese no da and Italian carità. Other chapters address concepts of mind, kinship terms, sign language, language documentation and translation. The volume includes both applications of Natural Semantic Metalanguage and discussions from other perspectives, followed by a biographical account and an index.