Anna Wierzbicka

Anna Wierzbicka (b. 1938) was born in Poland and is a linguist at the Australian National University[?]. She is primarily known for her work in semantics, pragmatics, and cross-cultural linguistics[?] and especially for the Natural Semantic Metalanguage.

Books by Anna Wierzbicka:

• What Did Jesus Mean? Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in simple and universal human concepts (2001)
• Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and universals (1999)
• Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, Japanese (1997)
• Semantics: Primes and Universals (1996)
• Semantics, Culture and Cognition: Universal human concepts in culture-specific configurations (1992)
• Cross-cultural pragmatics: The semantics of human interaction (1991)
• The Semantics of Grammar (1988)
• English Speech Act Verbs: A semantic dictionary (1987)
• Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis (1985)
• The Case for Surface Case (1980)
• Lingua Mentalis: The semantics of natural language (1980)
• Semantic Primitives (1972)

External link

• http://arts.anu.edu.au/linguistics/arts_fac/staff/wierzbicka - Wierzbicka's page at ANU