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(2019) Emotions

Published on January 15, 2022. Last updated on January 15, 2022.

Ye, Zhengdao. (2019).The semantics of emotion: From theory to empirical analysis. Pritzker, Sonya.E., Fenigsen, Janina., & Wilce, James.M. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367855093

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This chapter provides a systematic account of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to emotion and “affective science,” especially how it addresses three methodological questions: (a) how emotional meaning can be explicated in terms that are psychologically real to people; (b) how culture-specific meanings can be convened authentically to another linguacultural community, so that important nuances in the conceptualizations of emotions can be appreciated by cultural outsiders; and (c) how commonalities and differences in human experiences can be identified and articulated? The chapter draws upon a wide selection of NSM work across many languages, including Bislama, English, Mbula (PNG), and Chinese.

 


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(2019) Spanish – NSM

Published on November 11, 2020. Last updated on August 19, 2021.

Fernández, Susana S. (2019). Una introducción a la teoría de la Metalengua Semántica Natural (NSM) y su aplicación a la pragmática [An introduction to the theory of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) and its application to pragmatics]. Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics, 7(3), 397-420.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/soprag-2019-0023 / Open access

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Este artículo expone los principios de la teoría de la Metalengua Semántica Natural (NSM , originalmente propuesta por Wierzbicka y luego desarrollada en una serie de trabajos por Anna Wierzbicka y Cliff Goddard, además de otros académicos que trabajan en el campo. El objetivo es presentar cómo esta teoría se ha aplicado al estudio de la semántica y de la pragmática para analizar distintos aspectos de los hábitos lingüísticos de un determinado grupo cultural sin recurrir a modelos de universalidad, sino más bien trabajando desde dentro de la lengua estudiada para reconocer conceptos claves y estilos comunicativos que le son propios. El artículo presenta los conceptos de explicaciones semánticas y guiones culturales, que son explicaciones redactadas con la metodología de paráfrasis reductora a través de la herramienta de la NSM. La NSM es un minilengua compuesta por una serie de conceptos muy básicos y traducibles a todas las lenguas que sirven como punto de partida para explicar conceptos más complejos. Esta teoría ha sido complementada por Cliff Goddard con el concepto de lengua mínima, que también se presentará en el artículo. El artículo concluye con una exposición de las similitudes y diferencias que existen entre esta forma de hacer pragmática intercultural y la propuesta por otras teorías de la pragmática, incluida la teoría de la Pragmática Sociocultural de Diana Bravo y sus colegas.

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This article presents the principles of the theory of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), originally proposed by Wierzbicka and further developed in a series of publications by Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard, as well as by other scholars working in the field. The goal of the article is to present how this theory has been applied to the study of semantics and pragmatics in order to analyse different aspects of the linguistic habits of a particular cultural group without resorting to models of universality, but instead working from an insider’s perspective to recognize key concepts and communicative styles that belong to the group. The article presents the concepts of semantic explications and cultural scripts, which are explanations written through the method of reductive paraphrase making use of the tool of NSM. NSM is a mini-language composed of a series of very basic concepts, translatable to all languages, which are the basis for explaining complex concepts. Cliff Goddard has complemented this theory with the concept of Minimal Language, which will also be presented in the article. The article concludes with an exposition of similarities and differences between this way of doing intercultural pragmatics and other theories of pragmatics, including the theory of Sociocultural Pragmatics proposed by Diana Bravo and her colleagues.

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(2020) Cultural key words

Published on July 28, 2020. Last updated on July 28, 2020.

Peeters, Bert (2020). Culture is everywhere! In Bert Peeters, Kerry Mullan, & Lauren Sadow (Eds.), Studies in ethnopragmatics, cultural semantics, and intercultural communication: Vol. 2. Meaning and culture (pp. 1-14). Singapore: Springer.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9975-7_1

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This introductory chapter to the second of three volumes celebrating the career of Griffith University academic Cliff Goddard recaps the fundamentals of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach, which is explicitly adopted by all contributors to this volume (Sect. 1.2), then contextualizes and introduces the individual papers (Sects. 1.3 and 1.4).

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(2020) NSM

Published on August 19, 2021. Last updated on August 19, 2021.

Sadow, Lauren & Mullan, Kerry. (2020). A brief introduction to the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach. In Kerry Mullan, Bert Peeters, & Lauren Sadow (Eds.), Studies in ethnopragmatics, cultural semantics, and intercultural communication: Vol. 1. Ethnopragmatics and semantic analysis (pp. 35-58). Singapore: Springer.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9983-2_2

 

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This introductory chapter to the first of three volumes celebrating the career of Griffith University academic Cliff Goddard recaps the fundamentals of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach, ethnopragmatics and cultural scripts, and Minimal English (Sect. 2.1 to 2.7), then contextualizes and introduces the individual papers (Sect. 2.8).

(2021) Minimal Languages

Published on August 15, 2021. Last updated on August 15, 2021.

Goddard, Cliff. (2021). In Praise of Minimal Languages. In Goddard, Cliff (ed.). Minimal Languages in Action. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp 1-26.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64077-4_1

 


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(2021) NSM

Published on January 24, 2022. Last updated on January 24, 2022.

Goddard, Cliff (2021). Natural Semantic Metalanguage. In Xu, W., & Taylor, J. R. (Eds.). The routledge handbook of cognitive linguistics. Taylor & Francis Group. p. 93–110

 


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(2022) Environmental Semantics

Published on August 21, 2023. Last updated on November 17, 2023.

Bromhead, Helen., & Levisen, Carsten. (2022). Environmental Semantics. Scandinavian Studies in Language, 13(1), 78–87. Retrieved from https://tidsskrift.dk/sss/article/view/135073

 

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This article forms part of the handbook section of the Scandinavian Studies in Language Special Issue on Cognitive Cultural Semantics – A Nordic Guide to Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)