Analysis of Kinship Terms Using Natural Semantic Metalanguage: Anna Wierzbicka’s Approach

This paper provides a brief overview of some of the works by Anna Wierzbicka devoted to the study of kinship terms in different languages and cultures (Wierzbicka 2016a, 2016b, 2017). The paper considers the approach of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM), proposed by Wierzbicka for describing t...

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Main Author: Elizaveta G Kotorova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2018-12-01
Series:Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/viewFile/19353/16167