Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science (2010) Dobrushin Award (2010)
Academic background
Alma mater
Warsaw University
Academic work
Main interests
semantics, pragmatics and cross-cultural linguistics
Notable ideas
natural semantic metalanguage
Anna WierzbickaFAHA FASSA[ˈannavʲɛʐˈbʲitska] (born 10 March 1938 in Warsaw) is a Polish linguist who is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra.[1] Brought up in Poland, she graduated from Warsaw University and emigrated to Australia in 1972, where she has lived since. With over twenty published books, many of which have been translated into other languages, she is a prolific writer.
Wierzbicka is known for her work in semantics, pragmatics and cross-cultural linguistics, especially for the natural semantic metalanguage and the concept of semantic primes. Her research agenda resembles Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's original "alphabet of human thought". Wierzbicka credits her colleague, linguist Andrzej Bogusławski, with reviving it in the late 1960s.[2]
^"Professor Anna Wierzbicka". Australian National University. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
^Interviewer: Maria Zijlstra (15 August 2009). "Natural Semantic Metalanguage". LinguaFranca. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Transcript.
AnnaWierzbicka FAHA FASSA [ˈanna vʲɛʐˈbʲitska] (born 10 March 1938 in Warsaw) is a Polish linguist who is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National...
professor Andrzej Bogusławski. The theory was formally developed by AnnaWierzbicka at Warsaw University and later at the Australian National University...
Terms". Language. 54 (3): 610–646. doi:10.2307/412789. JSTOR 412789. Wierzbicka, Anna (2006). The Semantics of Colour: A New Paradigm. In Pitchford, N.J...
a complex and profound sentiment. Such emotions defy definition". AnnaWierzbicka concludes that the term has "no equivalent in English". The word aloha...
Don't We Say 'You're Welcome' Anymore?". HuffPost. Mary Besemeres, AnnaWierzbicka, Translating Lives: Living with Two Languages and Cultures (2007),...
Wierzbicka, Anna (1999) Emotions across Languages and Cultures: diversity and universals. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Wierzbicka, Anna...
Verbitsky/Verbitski. Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki (born ?), New Zealand actress AnnaWierzbicka (born 1938), Polish-Australian linguist Felix Wierzbicki (1815–1860)...
incidentally, the terms freedom and liberty are used interchangeably". AnnaWierzbicka, Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words (1997), pp. 130–131:...
Peter Monticup. "Magic Glossary". magictricks.com. Mary Besemeres, AnnaWierzbicka, Translating Lives: Living with Two Languages and Cultures (2007),...
this approach can be found in the natural semantic metalanguage of AnnaWierzbicka and associates. See, for example, and Other lines of research suggest...
the linguistic dominance of English on academic discipline; scholar AnnaWierzbicka has described disciplines such as social science and humanities being...
linguistics at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He is, with AnnaWierzbicka, a leading proponent of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach...
the linguistic dominance of English on academic discipline; scholar AnnaWierzbicka has described disciplines such as social science and humanities being...
form of expression of the relaxed attitude in Australian culture. AnnaWierzbicka comments that the expression illustrates important parts of Australian...
Weierstrass (1815–1897) – often called the father of modern analysis AnnaWierzbicka (1938–) – linguist, founder of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)...
"Meanings of Japanese sound-symbolic emotion words". In Harkins, Jean & AnnaWierzbicka (eds.) Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective (Cognitive Linguistics...
the methodology on fundamental human concepts. Polish anthropologist AnnaWierzbicka argues that "mother" and "father" are examples of such fundamental...
Mikvah". Archived from the original on 2002-08-16. Retrieved 2006-01-25. AnnaWierzbicka, The Semantics of Grammar, ISBN 9027230196, 1988, p. 456 Haldane, Robert...
Notable researchers who hold this view include AnnaWierzbicka, Hakwan Lau and Matthias Michel. Wierzbicka (who is a linguist) argues that the vocabulary...
to make interactions more informal, friendly and relaxed. Linguist AnnaWierzbicka argues that Australians' use of diminutives reflects Australian cultural...
working with a truly Humboldtian perspective writing in English today is AnnaWierzbicka, who has published a number of comparative works on semantic universals...
Hitzer, Emotionsgeschichte - ein Anfang mit Folgen. Forschungsbericht. AnnaWierzbicka, The “History of Emotions” and the Future of Emotion Research, in:...
culture." Some linguists working on Universals of semantics, such as AnnaWierzbicka and Cliff Goddard, argue that there is a Natural Semantic Metalanguage...
Matyjaszewski, Andrzej Tarkowski, Bohdan Paczyński, Timothy D. Snyder, AnnaWierzbicka, Maciej Gliwicz, Ryszard Gryglewski, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Aleksander...
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