Words and Meanings - Goddard, Cliff (Professor of Linguistics, Griffith University, Brisbane) a Wierzbicka, Anna (Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University)

This book presents cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigations of word meaning from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The words they consider are complex, culturally important, and basic, in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri, and Malay.