Similar words, different meanings: a natural semantic metalanguage exploration of cultural differences

Similar words, different meanings: a natural semantic metalanguage exploration of cultural differences

Anna Wierbicka and other writers of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (henceforth NSM) often argue that anthropologists and psychologists, particularly Western ones, are wrong for applying concepts like mind, anger and depression to foreign cultures because these cultures do not have words with similar...

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Main Author: Hazidi Bin Haji Abdul Hamid
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit UKM 2002
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/719/
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spelling ukm-7192016-12-14T06:27:59Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/719/ Similar words, different meanings: a natural semantic metalanguage exploration of cultural differences Hazidi Bin Haji Abdul Hamid, Anna Wierbicka and other writers of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (henceforth NSM) often argue that anthropologists and psychologists, particularly Western ones, are wrong for applying concepts like mind, anger and depression to foreign cultures because these cultures do not have words with similar intention and extensions. Their critics on the other hand argue that the NSM critique is unjustified because while other cultures do not necessarily have similar words, they must have corresponding concepts simply because people in these other cultures, like in Malaysia, experience feelings like these (M, Immler 1991:51). This paper intends to show that the NSM critique is justified because these corresponding concepts can be similar to a certain extent but can also carry great semantic difference when broken down to their more basic elements of meaning. More importantly, this will be done using analysis of the Malay language. Penerbit UKM 2002 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/719/1/GemaVol1.1.2001No1.pdf Hazidi Bin Haji Abdul Hamid, (2002) Similar words, different meanings: a natural semantic metalanguage exploration of cultural differences. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 2 (1). ISSN 1675-8021 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/Gema/gemahome.html
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description Anna Wierbicka and other writers of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (henceforth NSM) often argue that anthropologists and psychologists, particularly Western ones, are wrong for applying concepts like mind, anger and depression to foreign cultures because these cultures do not have words with similar intention and extensions. Their critics on the other hand argue that the NSM critique is unjustified because while other cultures do not necessarily have similar words, they must have corresponding concepts simply because people in these other cultures, like in Malaysia, experience feelings like these (M, Immler 1991:51). This paper intends to show that the NSM critique is justified because these corresponding concepts can be similar to a certain extent but can also carry great semantic difference when broken down to their more basic elements of meaning. More importantly, this will be done using analysis of the Malay language.
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author Hazidi Bin Haji Abdul Hamid,
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title Similar words, different meanings: a natural semantic metalanguage exploration of cultural differences
title_short Similar words, different meanings: a natural semantic metalanguage exploration of cultural differences
title_full Similar words, different meanings: a natural semantic metalanguage exploration of cultural differences
title_fullStr Similar words, different meanings: a natural semantic metalanguage exploration of cultural differences
title_full_unstemmed Similar words, different meanings: a natural semantic metalanguage exploration of cultural differences
title_sort similar words, different meanings: a natural semantic metalanguage exploration of cultural differences
publisher Penerbit UKM
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url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/719/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/719/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/719/1/GemaVol1.1.2001No1.pdf
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