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Translatability and the scripting of other peoples' souls

Wierzbicka, Anna

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If anthropology aims at 'understanding "others" ', then obviously anthropologists must be interested in the meaning of what those 'others' say. But to understand what speakers of a language other than our own say, we need to know what exactly the words an

dc.contributor.authorWierzbicka, Anna
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T22:22:50Z
dc.identifier.issn1035-8811
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/72463
dc.description.abstractIf anthropology aims at 'understanding "others" ', then obviously anthropologists must be interested in the meaning of what those 'others' say. But to understand what speakers of a language other than our own say, we need to know what exactly the words an
dc.publisherAustralian Anthropological Society Inc
dc.sourceAustralian Journal of Anthropology, The
dc.subjectKeywords: cultural scripts; Kinship in Australian languages; Natural Semantic Metalanguage
dc.titleTranslatability and the scripting of other peoples' souls
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume24
dc.date.issued2013
local.identifier.absfor200408 - Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
local.identifier.absfor200405 - Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
local.identifier.ariespublicationf5625xPUB3262
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationWierzbicka, Anna, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage21
local.identifier.doi10.1111/taja.12018
local.identifier.absseo950201 - Communication Across Languages and Culture
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T09:08:22Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84876128155
local.identifier.thomsonID000317493800001
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