Bogusławski, Andrzej (2001). Reflections on Wierzbicka’s explications. Lingua Posnaniensis, 43, 47-88.
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Bogusławski, Andrzej (2011). Reflections on Wierzbicka’s explications & related essays. Warszawa: BEL Studio.
In this paper, the author brings together three earlier publications dealing with Anna Wierzbicka’s work. One of them is a chapter on “Wierzbicka’s explications” in the book Science as linguistic activity, linguistics as scientific activity (1998); the chapter has been supplemented with some introductory remarks. Another one is part of a chapter on names of natural kinds taken from the book Język w słowniku: desiderata semantyczne do wielkiego słownika polszczyzny [‘Language in the dictionary: semantic desiderata for a great Polish dictionary’] (1988); it is presented here as a partly revised and complemented English version of the Polish text. The third item included in the present publication is based on a small section of an article (in Polish) on Wierzbicka’s dictionary of speech act verbs (1988) and deals with how she analyses descriptions of speech events (not abstract descriptions of kinds of speech acts, but statements of particular tokens thereof as occurring in ordinary discourse and displaying certain non-individual characteristics); this section, too, is more than just a translation.
