Overview

This volume is part of a research program which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka’s groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives. The first within the program to focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) elaborated over the years by Wierzbicka and colleagues. Repetition is avoided through teamwork: a number of authors working on the languages under examination have had equal input in a set of five papers dealing with distinct parts of the metalanguage. Some of the findings presented here invite us to have a fresh look at what has already been achieved, and to amend some of the working hypotheses of the NSM approach accordingly. The volume also contains six case studies (on Italian sfogarsi, Portuguese saudades, Spanish crisis, French certes, Spanish expressions of sincerity and Italian and Spanish diminutives, respectively).

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Author:   Bert Peeters (University of Tasmania)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   81
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9789027230911

ISBN 10:   9027230919
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   16 August 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of contributors; 3. List of abbreviations; 4. Typographical conventions and symbols; 5. Preface (by Wierzbicka, Anna); 6. Scope and contents of this volume (by Peeters, Bert); 7. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach: An overview with reference to the most important Romance languages (by Goddard, Cliff); 8. Part 1: Romance versions of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage; 9. Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Substantives; determines; quantifiers (by Peeters, Bert); 10. Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Evaluators and descriptors; mental predicates (by Peeters, Bert); 11. Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Speech; actions, events and movement; existence and possession; life and death (by Peeters, Bert); 12. Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Time and space (by Peeters, Bert); 13. Natural Semantic Metalanguage exponents and universal grammar in Romance: Logical concepts; intensifier and augmentor; taxonomy and partonomy; similarity (by Peeters, Bert); 14. Part 2: The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Applied; 15. Sfogarsi: A semantic analysis of an Italian speech routine and its underlying cultural values (by Maher, Brigid); 16. Portuguese saudade and other emotions of absence and longing (by Farrell, Patrick); 17. The development of a key word: The deictic field of Spanish crisis (by DuBartell, Deborah); 18. The French connector certes: A Natural Semantic Metalanguage interpretation (by Burston, Monique A.); 19. Francamente, el rojo te sienta fatal: Semantics and pragmatics of some expressions of sincerity in present-day Spanish (by Aznarez Mauleon, Monica); 20. Towards a description of Spanish and Italian diminutives within the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework (by Bartens, Angela); 21. Indexes

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