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1	Two levels of verbal communication, universal and culture-specific
	Wierzbicka, Anna. - : De Gruyter Mouton, 2022
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2	Cross-Cultural Pragmatics : The Semantics of Human Interaction
	Wierzbicka, Anna [Verfasser]; Winter, Werner [Herausgeber]. - Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2020
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3	I KNOW: A Human Universal
	Wierzbicka, Anna
	In: Epistemology for the rest of the world (2018), S. 215-250
	Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
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4	Talking about our Bodies and their Parts in Warlpiri
	Wierzbicka, Anna; Goddard, Cliff. - : Taylor & Francis, 2018
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5	Minimal English and How It Can Add to Global English
	Goddard, Cliff; Wierzbicka, Anna. - : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
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6	A ‘sense of entitlement’ encoded in English grammar
	Wierzbicka, Anna. - : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, 2018
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7	"Pain" and "suffering" in cross-linguistic perspective
	Wierzbicka, Anna
	In: "Happiness" and "Pain" across languages and cultures (Amsterdam, 2016), p. 19-44
	MPI für Psycholinguistik
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8	What does Jukurrpa ('Dreamtime', 'the Dreaming') mean? A semantic and conceptual journey of discovery
	Goddard, Cliff; Wierzbicka, Anna
	In: Australian Aboriginal Studies (2016)
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9	The meaning of colour words in a cross-linguistic perspective
	Wierzbicka, Anna. - : Cambridge University Press, 2016
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10	‘It's mine!’. Re-thinking the conceptual semantics of “possession” through NSM
	Goddard, Cliff; Wierzbicka, Anna
	In: Language Sciences (2016)
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11	The meaning of colour words in a cross-linguistic perspective
	Wierzbicka, Anna. - : Cambridge University Press, 2016
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12	A whole cloud of culture condensed into a drop of semantics: The meaning of the German word Herr as a term of address
	Wierzbicka, Anna
	In: International Journal of Language and Culture (2016)
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13	“Walking” and “running” in English and German: The conceptual semantics of verbs of human locomotion
	Goddard, Cliff; Wierzbicka, Anna; Wong, Jock. - : John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2016
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14	'It's mine!'. Re-thinking the conceptual semantics of "possession" through NSM
	Goddard, Cliff; Wierzbicka, Anna. - : Pergamon, 2016
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15	Explicating the English lexicon of 'doing and happening'
	Goddard, Cliff; Wierzbicka, Anna. - : John Benjamins Publishing, 2016
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16	Language and cultural scripts
	Wierzbicka, Anna
	In: The Routledge handbook of language and culture (London, 2015), p. 339-356
	MPI für Psycholinguistik
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17	Innate conceptual primitives manifested in the language of the world and in infant cognition
	Wierzbicka, Anna
	In: The conceptual mind (Cambridge, MA, 2015), p. 379-412
	MPI für Psycholinguistik
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18	NSM analyses of the semantics of physical qualities: sweet, hot, hard, heavy, rough, sharp in cross-linguistic perspective
	Goddard, Cliff; Wierzbicka, Anna
	In: Studies in Language (2015)
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19	Understanding others requires shared concepts
	Wierzbicka, Anna
	In: Pragmatics and Cognition (2015)
	Abstract: "It is a noble task to try to understand others, and to have them understand you (.) but it is never an easy one", says Everett (p. 327). This paper argues that a basic prerequisite for understanding others (and also for having them understand you) is to have some shared concepts on which this understanding can build. If speakers of different languages didn't share some concepts to begin with then cross-cultural understanding would not be possible even with the best of will on all sides. Everett stresses the great value of each language as a unique perspective on the world and a "repository of the riches of highly specialized cultural experiences", and I fully agree with this. But to access those riches hidden in the thousands of the world's languages we need to understand the meanings encoded in each language (both in its words and its grammar). We could not understand those meanings if we didn't have a stock of shared concepts (acknowledged even by Whorf) with which we could build conceptual bridges between other peoples' conceptual worlds and our own. Unfortunately, Everett seems unable to see this point and in his eagerness to depict the Pirahã people as radically different from the rest of the humankind he goes far beyond the linguistic evidence (as presented in his own publications on the Pirahã language) - as one can clearly see if this evidence is subjected to careful semantic analysis based on a coherent methodology (see my commentary on Everett's "Cultural constrains on grammar and cognition in Pirahã" in Current Anthropology 46:4, 2005). For example, Everett claims that Pirahã has no word for "mother", no words for "before' and "after", no words for "one", "two" and "all" and no words comparable to 'think" and "want". These claims are based, I believe, on faulty semantic analysis, and in particular, on a determination not to recognize polysemy under any circumstances. As I see it, at many points this stance makes nonsense of Everett's own data and distorts the conceptual world of the Pirahã. Since he does not want to recognize the existence of any shared concepts, Everett is also not prepared to address the question of a culture-neutral metalanguage in which Pirahã and English conceptual categories could be compared. This often leads him to imposing cultural categories of English (such as "evidence", "tolerance" and "parent") on the conceptual world of the Pirahã. The result is a combination of exoticism and Anglocentrism which doesn't do justice to Everett's long and intimate engagement with the Pirahã people and their language. Sadly, it blinds him to what Franz Boas called "the psychic unity of mankind", reflected in the common semantic features of human languages and fully compatible with the cultural shaping of their lexicons and grammars.
	Keyword: Keywords: Cultural scripts; Kinship; Natural semantics metalanguage (NSM); Numbers; Polysemy; Psychological concepts; Semantic universals; Universal human concepts
	URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/71102 https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.20.2.09wie
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20	Lexical prototypes as a universal basis for cross-linguistic identification of parts of speech.
	Wierzbicka, Anna. - : Mouton de Gruyter, 2015
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