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Language sciences (Oxford), 2005, Vol.27 (1), p.51-73
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Culture is one of the key words of the English language, in popular as well as scholarly discourse. It is flourishing in popular usage, with a proliferation of extended uses (
police culture,
Barbie culture,
argument culture,
culture of complaint, etc.), while being endlessly debated in intellectual circles. Though it is sometimes observed that the meaning of the English word
culture is highly language-specific, its precise lexical semantics has received surprisingly little attention. The main task undertaken in this paper is to develop and justify semantic explications for the common ordinary meanings of this polysemous word. My analytical framework is the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) approach originated by Anna Wierzbicka. I will propose a set of semantic explications framed in terms of empirically established universal semantic primes such as
people,
think,
do,
live,
not,
like,
the same, and
other.