Semantic Analysis: A Practical Introduction (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics)

Semantic Analysis is a lively and clearly written introduction to the study of meaning in language, and to the language-culture connection. Goddard covers traditional and contemporary issues and approaches with the relationship between semantics, conceptualization, and culture as a key theme. He also details a number of case studies that draw on a wide range of material from non-Indo-European languages, particularly Australian Aboriginal languages and Malay, on which the author is an authority.

Politics & Social Sciences

Goddard, Cliff

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Semantic Analysis is a lively and clearly written introduction to the study of meaning in language, and to the language-culture connection. Cliff Goddard covers essential background on traditional and contemporary issues and approaches, and then takes the reader through a series of case studies in descriptive semantics. He includes topics such as emotions, speech acts, colours, concrete objects, motion, causative verbs, and grammatical categories. The author draws on a rich range of material from a diversity of languages, including Arrernte, Ewe, Japanese, Malay, Polish, Spanish, and Yankunytjatjara. The main method used is reductive paraphrase in natural language, an approach which is rigorous yet accessible, and each chapter has a selection of interesting and often thought-provoking exercises to involve students in practical semantic analysis. This is the first real textbook on cross-cultural, cross-linguistic semantics. Series Information Series ISBN: 0-19-961833-X (Cloth); 0-19-9618348 (Paper) Series Editors: Professor Keith Brown (Essex), Professor Eve V. Clark (Stanford), Professor Lesley Milroy (Michigan and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dr Jim Miller (Edinburgh), Professor Geoffrey K. Pullum (UC Santa Cruz), and Professor Peter Roach (Reading) Series Description: Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics is a new series of course textbooks for second and third-year undergraduate, and postgraduate university students. It is assumed that the student will have completed a first-year introductory course in general linguistics. The books will be suitable for students specializing in linguistics, or taking linguistics options as part of a languages, humanities, or social sciences degree. Other books in the series are Linguistic Reconstruction by Anthony Fox and Principles and Parameters by Peter Culicover.

In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. They focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri, and Malay. Some are basic like men, women, and children or abstract nouns like trauma and violence; others describe qualities such as hot, hard, and rough, emotions like happiness and sadness, or feelings like pain. They ground their discussions in real examples from different cultures and draw on work ranging from Leibniz, Locke, and Bentham, to popular works such as autobiographies and memoirs, and the Dalai Lama on happiness. The book opens with a review of the neglected status of lexical semantics in linguistics. The authors consider a range of analytical issues including lexical polysemy, semantic change, the relationship between lexical and grammatical semantics, and the concepts of semantic molecules and templates. Their fascinating book is for everyone interested in the relations between meaning, culture, ideas, and words.

Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures (Oxford Linguistics)

The Languages of East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction

This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It combines serious but accessible treatments of diverse areas not usually found in a single volume: for example, word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems, communicative style. Written with great clarity and an eye for interesting examples, the book is a textbook for students of linguistics, Asian languages, and Asian studies.

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Foreign Language Study & Reference

This lively textbook introduces students and scholars to practical and precise methods for articulating the meanings of words and sentences, and for revealing connections between language and culture. Topics range over emotions, speech acts, words for animals and artifacts, motion, activity verbs, causatives, discourse particles, and nonverbal communication. Alongside English, it features a wide range of other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Australian Aboriginal languages. Undergraduates, graduate students and professional linguists alike will benefit from Goddard's wide-ranging summaries, clear explanations and analytical depth. Meaning is fundamental to language and linguistics. This book shows that the study of meaning can be rigorous, insightful and exciting.

Words, Language & Grammar

Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures

Wierzbicka, Anna

Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Picture Dictionary

IAD Press

Pitjantjatjara and Yanunytjatjara are two neighbouring dialects of the Western Desert language.  They are spoken over a wide area of the Northern Territory and South Australia stretching south from Areyonga to Coober Pedy and beyond, along the Western Australian border and as far as Oodnadatta to the east.  The Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary has been in print since 1992 helping hundreds if not thousands of students and speakers to master one of the most widely spoken languages of Central Australia.  The dictionary comprises a list of commonly used words, concisely defined and illustrated with examples given by Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara speakers, along with reverse word finder to help English speakers locate the words they need.

Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictiona: Revised Second Edition

Punu: Yankunytjatjara Plant Use

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Australia & Oceania

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Semantic Analysis: A Practical Introduction (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics)

Semantic Analysis: A Practical Introduction (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics)

Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures (Oxford Linguistics)

The Languages of East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction

The Languages of East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction

Semantic Analysis: A Practical Introduction (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics)

Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures

Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Picture Dictionary

Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictiona: Revised Second Edition

Punu: Yankunytjatjara Plant Use