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Publication details [#26283]
Wierzbicka, Anna. 1991. Cross-cultural semantics: The semantics of human interaction. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 53). De Gruyter Mouton. xiii + 502 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
W. proposes to use a language-independent semantic metalanguage to describe the illocutionary force encoded in different languages and to compare them intra- en interlinguistically in a verifiable way. These linguistic comparisons can then lead to valid cultural comparisons.
