Понимание культур через посредство ключевых слов

The main points developed in the book by A. Wierzbicka are that different languages ​​differ significantly in terms of their vocabulary and these differences reflect differences in the core values ​​of the corresponding cultural communities. In her book, A. Wierzbicka strives to show that any culture can be researched, subjected to comparative analysis and described using the “key words” of the language serving a given culture. The theoretical foundation of such an analysis can be a “natural semantic metalanguage”, which is reconstructed on the basis of extensive comparative language research. The book is addressed not only to linguists, but also to anthropologists, psychologists and philosophers. The publication includes chapters from the work Understanding Cultures through their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, Japanese. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.