This book presents a series of systematic empirically based studies of word meanings each chapter investigates key expressions drawn from different domains of the lexicon concrete abstract physical sensory emotional and social the examples chosen are complex and culturally important they include the cross linguistic semantics of basic social categories like men women and children of physical qualities like hot hard and rough of emotions like happiness of words to express . Words and meanings lexical semantics across domains languages and cultures english edition 1 auflage kindle ausgabe auflage kindle ausgabe von cliff goddard autor anna wierzbicka autor format kindle ausgabe. Words meanings lexical semantics across domains languages cultures was written by cliff goddard professor of linguistics at griffith university and anna wierzbicka professor of linguistics at australian national university published as a hardback by oxford university press in 2014 as a paperback in 2016 both authors have worked extensively on cross cultural pragmatics and contrastive semantics either individually or together in their numerous articles books and lectures they h. Words and meanings lexical semantics across domains languages and cultures cliff c goddard anna a wierzbicka 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. Words and meanings lexical semantics across domains languages and cultures oxford university press london 2016 isbn 978 0 19 878355 8 price gbp4495 316 pages 1 words meanings lexical semantics across domains languages cultures was written by cliff goddard professor of linguistics at griffith university and anna wierzbicka