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Wierzbicka was born in 1938, just before the outbreak of World War II. She received her Ph.D. from Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences in 1964 and subsequently her habilitation degree five years later. Since 1973 she has been working at ANU, from 1989 as a professor.

Throughout her career she has collaborated closely with Polish researchers, and was awarded the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science for developing the theory of the natural semantic metalanguage and discovering a set of elementary meanings common to all languages. Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, cognitive science, philosophy, and religious studies as well as linguistics.

Professor Anna Wierzbicka is a Professor in the Linguistics Program, School of Language Studies, Arts. In her 1972 book "Semantic Primitives" she launched a theory now known under the acronym "NSM" (Natural Semantic Metalanguage), which is now internationally recognized as one of the world's leading theories of language and meaning. This approach has been used in hundreads of semantic studies across many languages and.

She has published over twenty books and edited or co-edited several others. Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, cognitive science, philosophy and religious studies as well as linguistics, and has been published in many journals across all these disciplines (e.g., Language, American Anthropologist, Man, Anthropological Linguistics, Cognition and Emotion, Culture and Psychology, Ethos, Philosophica, Brain and Behaviourial Sciences, The Journal of Cognition and Culture etc).

Professor Wierzbicka is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She has two Honorary Doctorates, one from Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland (2004) and one from Warsaw University, Poland (2006). She is the winner of the Dobrushin Prize for 2010 (established in Russia in honour of the Russian mathematician Roland Lvovich Dobrushin) and of the Polish Science Foundation’s 2010 prize for the humanities and social sciences.

Anna Wierzbicka has published over 300 articles in journals from the disciplines her work spans, including Language, Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Man, Anthropological Linguistics, Cognition and Emotion, Culture and Psychology, Ethos, Philosophica, Brain and Behaviourial Sciences and The Journal of Cognition and Culture.

Areas of expertise:

Philosophical Psychology (Incl. Moral Psychology And Philosophy Of Action)

Jewish Studies

Organisational, Interpersonal And Intercultural Communication

Culture, Gender, Sexuality

Language In Time And Space (Incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)

Language Studies

Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)

Cultural Theory

Translation And Interpretation Studies

Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics)

Lote, Esl And Tesol Curriculum And Pedagogy (Excl. Maori)

Migrant Cultural Studies

Philosophy Of Language

Comparative Language Studies

Linguistic Anthropology

Other European Languages

Biography

Christian Studies (Incl. Biblical Studies And Church History)

Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies

Discourse And Pragmatics

English Language

Central And Eastern European Languages (Incl. Russian)

Cultural Studies

Other Psychology And Cognitive Sciences

Linguistics

Awards:

Honorary degree from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (2004)

Honorary degree from Warsaw University (2006)

Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science (2010)

Dobrushin Award (2010)

List of works:

Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, Japanese (1997)

The Semantics of Grammar (1988)

The Case for Surface Case (1980)

Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis (1985)

Cross-cultural pragmatics: The semantics of human interaction (1991)

Semantics: Primes and Universals (1996)

Semantics, Culture and Cognition: Universal human concepts in culture-specific configurations (1992)

Semantic Primitives (1972)

Lingua Mentalis: The semantics of natural language (1980)

English: Meaning and culture (2006). ISBN 0195174747

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)

English Speech Act Verbs: A semantic dictionary (1987)

Books:

(co-authored with Cliff Goddard) Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures. Oxford UP (2014).

Imprisoned in English. The Hazards of English As a Default Language, Oxford

Experience, Evidence, and Sense: The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English (2010).

English: Meaning and culture (2006).

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).

Список литературы:

http://www.koob.ru/wierzbicka/

http://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/gumanitarnye_nauki/lingvi..

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