{"product_id":"semantics-culture-and-cognition","title":"Semantics, Culture, and Cognition","description":"\u003cp\u003eNot everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo culture and proposes instead a \"natural semantic metalanguage\" formulated in English words but based on lexical universals. The outcome of two and a half decades of research, the metalanguage is made up of universal semantic primitives in terms of which all meanings--including the most culture-specific ones--can be described and compared in a precise and illuminating way. Integrating insights from linguistics, cultural anthropology, and cognitive psychology, and written in simple, non-technical language, Semantics, Culture, and Cognition is accessible not only to scholars and students, but also to the general reader interested in semantics and the relationship between language and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Wierzbicka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573480947773,"sku":"9780195073263","price":297.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/semantics-culture-and-cognition","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}