Anna Wierzbicka

Published works by Anna Wierzbicka

Anna.Wierzbicka@anu.edu.au

Books

• 2014. Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default Language. New York: Oxford University Press.
• 2014. (with Cliff Goddard). Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages and Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2010. Experience, Evidence, and Sense: The hidden cultural legacy of English. New York: Oxford University Press.
• 2006. English: Meaning and culture. New York: Oxford University Press.
• 2003 (1991). Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The semantics of human interaction. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Expanded second edition).
• 2001. What Did Jesus Mean? Explaining the sermon on the mount and the parables in simple and universal human concepts. New York: Oxford University Press.
• 1999. Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and universals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 1997. Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, Japanese. New York: Oxford University Press.
• 1996. Semantics: Primes and universals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 1992. Semantics, Culture and Cognition: Universal human concepts in culture-specific configurations. New York: Oxford University Press.
• 1988. The Semantics of Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 1987. English Speech Act Verbs: A semantic dictionary. Sydney: Academic.
• 1985. Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis. Ann Arbor: Karoma.
• 1980a. The Case for Surface Case. Ann Arbor: Karoma.
• 1980b. Lingua Mentalis: The semantics of natural language. Sydney: Academic.
• 1972. Semantic Primitives. Frankfurt: Athenäum.

Books Edited

• 2007. (with Mary Besmeres). Translating Lives. Living with two languages and cultures. St. Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press.2004. (Guest editor, with Cliff Goddard). Intercultural Pragmatics 1(2). Special issue on "Cultural scripts".
• 2002. (Guest editor, with Nick Enfield). Pragmatics and Cognition 10(1). Special issue on "The body in the description of emotion".
• 2002. (with Cliff Goddard). Meaning and Universal Grammar – Theory and Empirical Findings. [Two volumes]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 2001 (with Jean Harkins). Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 1994 (with Cliff Goddard). Semantic and Lexical Universals – Theory and Empirical Findings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 1990 (Guest editor). Australian Journal of Linguistics 10(2). Special issue on "The semantics of emotions".
• 1986 (Guest editor). Journal of Pragmatics 10(5). Special issue on "Particles".

Book Chapters and Journal Articles (in English)

In press and forthcoming

• Wierzbicka, Anna. In press. I KNOW: A human universal. In Masaharu Mizumoto, Eric McCready, Jason Stanley and Stephen Stich (eds.), Epistemology for the rest of the world.
• Wierzbicka, Anna (with Goddard, C. and Wong, J). In press. "Walking" and "running" in English and German: The cross-linguistic semantics of human locomotion. Review of Cognitive Linguistics.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. In press. The meaning of kinship terms: a developmental and cross-linguistic perspective. In Zhengdao Ye (ed.), The Semantics of Nouns. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. In press. Deconstructing “colour”, exploring indigenous meanings. In Diana Young (ed.), Rematerializing Colour. Wantage, UK: Sean Kingston.

2016

• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2016. Two levels of verbal communication, universal and culture-specific. in L de Saussure and A Rocci (eds.), Verbal Communication, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.

2015

• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2015. New perspectives on kinship: Overcoming the Eurocentrism and scientism of kinship studies through lexical universals. In Nancy Bonvillain (ed.), The Routledge handbook of linguistic anthropology. New York: Routledge. 62-79.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2015. A whole cloud of culture condensed into a drop of semantics: The meaning of the German word Herr as a term of address. International journal of language and culture 2. 1-37.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2015. Innate conceptual primitives manifested in the languages of the world and in infant cognition. In Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence (eds), The conceptual mind: new directions in the study of concepts. Cambridge: The MIT Press. 379-412.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2015. Language and cultural scripts. In Farzad Sharifian (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture. Routledge. pp. 339-356.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2015. The idea of a spoon. Language Sciences 47(A): 66–83. [available online, Jan 2015; doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2014.08.005].

2014

• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2014. “Moral absolutes and the multiplicity of languages”. In Anna Kozlowska & Agnieszka Swiatek (eds), Znaczenie, tekst, kultura. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kardynaka Stefana Wyszynskiego. 119-138.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2014. "Pain" and "suffering" in cross-linguistic perspective. International Journal of Language and Culture 1(2), 149 – 173.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2014. Can there be common knowledge without a common language? German Pflicht versus English Duty 21(1), 141-171.

2013

• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2013. Understanding others requires shared concepts. Pragmatics & Cognition, 20(2), 356-379.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2013. Polish zwierzęta ‘animals’ and jabłka ‘apples’: an ethnosemantic inquiry. In Adam Głaz, David S. Danaher & Przemysław Łozowski (eds), The linguistic worldview: ethnolinguistics, cognition, and culture. London: Versita. 137-159.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2013. “Kinship and social cognition in Australian languages: Kayardild and Pitjantjatjara”. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 33. 302-321.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2013. Translatability and the scripting of other peoples’ souls. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 24(1), 1–22.

2012

• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2012. Is pain a human universal? Conceptualisations of pain in English, French, and Polish. Colloquia Communia Jan-June 2012, 29-53.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2012. “‘Advice’ in English and in Russian: a contrastive and cross-cultural perspective”. In Holger Limberg & Miriam A. Locher (eds), Advice in discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 309-332.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2012. Is Pain a Human Universal? A Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspective on Pain. Emotion Review, 4(3), 307-317.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2012. Pain: Universal but Culturally Shaped. Emotion Review. 4(3), 324-325.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2012. The semantics of ‘sex’ in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. In Ju. Apresjan, I.Boguslavsky, M.-C.L'Homme, L. Iomdin, J. Milicevic, A. Polguere and L. Wanner (eds.). Meaning, Texts and other Exciting Things. A Festschrift to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of Professor Igor Alexandrovič Mel'čuk, 641-649. Moscow: Jazyki slavjanskoj kultury.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2012. When cultural scripts clash: Miscommunication in “multicultural” Australia. In Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (ed.).Intercultural miscommunication past and present, 121-148. Łódź: Peter Lang.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2012. The history of English seen as the history of ideas: Cultural change reflected in different translations of the New Testament. In Terttu Nevalainen and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, 434-445. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2011

• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2011. “Arguing in Russian: why Solzhenitsyn’s fictional arguments defy translation”. Russian journal of communication 4. 8-37.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2011. “Common language of all people: the innate language of thought”. Problems of information transmission 47. 378-397. English translation of a Russian text (2011) published in Problemy Peredachi Informatsii 47(4). 84-103.

2010

• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2010. ‘Eating’ and ‘drinking’ in Kalam. In John Bowden, Nikolaus Himmelmann and Malcolm Ross (eds.) A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space: Papers in honour of Andrew Pawley. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 651-660.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2010. Bilingualism and cognition – perspective from semantics. In Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti (eds.) Language and Bilingual Cognition. Hove, UK: Routledge. 191-218.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2010. Cross-cultural communication and miscommunication: the role of cultural keywords. Intercultural Pragmatics. 7(1), 1-23.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2010. The ‘history of emotions’ and the future of emotion research. Emotion Review 2(3), 269-273.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2010. ‘Story’ – An English cultural keyword and a key interpretive tool of Anglo culture. Narrative Inquiry. 20(1): 153-181.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2010. On emotions and on definitions: A response to Izard. Emotion Review 2(4), 379-380.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2010. Cultural scripts. In Louise Cummings (ed.). The Pragmatics Encyclopedia. London: Routledge. 92-95.
• Wierzbicka, Anna. 2010. Cultural scripts and Intercultural Communication. In Anna Trosborg (ed.) Pragmatics across languages and cultures. Handbooks of Pragmatics. Vol. 7. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 43-78.
• (with Cliff Goddard). 2010. Semantics and cognition. In Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science (WIREs Cognitive Science). Editor-in-Chief Lynn Nadel. 11 pages, unnumbered. Published online 9 July 2010. DOI:10.1002/wcs.101
• (with Cliff Goddard ). 2010. 'Wanting' is a semantic and conceptual universal (response to Khanina). Studies in Language 34(1), 108-123.

2009

• 2009. The theory of the mental lexicon. In: Sebastian Kempgen, Peter Kosta, Tilman Berger and Karl Gutschmidt (eds), Die slavischen Sprachen/The Slavic Languages: Eine internationales Handbuch zu ihrer Struktur, ihrer Geschichte und ihrer Erforsching/An international handbook of their structure, their history and their investigation. [HSK 32.1] (Handbücher zur Sprach – und Kommunikationswissenschaft). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 848-863.
• All people eat and drink: Does this mean that 'eat' and 'drink' are universal human concepts? In: John Newman (ed.), The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 65-89.
• "Reciprocity": An NSM approach to linguistic typology and social universals. Studies in Language 33(1), 103-174.
• Exploring English phraseology with two tools: NSM semantic methodology and Google. Journal of English Linguistics 37(2), 101-129.
• What makes a good life? A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. The Journal of Positive Psychology 4, 260-272.
• Language and metalanguage: Key issues in emotion research. Emotion Review 1(1), 3-14.
• Overcoming Anglocentrism in emotion research. Emotion Review 1(1), 21-23.
• (with Cliff Goddard). Contrastive semantics of physical activity verbs: 'Cutting' and 'chopping' in English, Polish, and Japanese. Language Sciences 31, 60-96.

2008

• (with Cliff Goddard). 2008. New semantic primes and new syntactic frames: "Specificational BE" and "abstract THIS/IT". In Cliff Goddard (ed.), Cross-Linguistic Semantics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.35-57.
• A conceptual basis for intercultural pragmatics and world-wide understanding. In: Martin Pütz and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer (eds), Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 3-46.
• Case in NSM: A reanalysis of the Polish Dative. In: Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 151-169.
• (with Cliff Goddard). Universal human concepts as a basis for contrastive linguistic semantics. In: María de los Ángeles Gómez-Gonzáles, Lachlan Mackenzie, Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen and Elsa Gonzáles Álvarez (eds), Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 205-226.
• Why there are no 'colour universals' in language and thought. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14, 407-425.

2007

• Is "remember" a universal human concept? "Memory" and culture. In: Mengistu Amberber (ed.), The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 13-39.
• Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the study of phraseology and of its cultural underpinnings. In: Paul Skandera (ed.), Phraseology and Culture in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 49-78.
• Bodies and their parts: An NSM approach to semantic typology. Language Sciences 29(1), 14-65.
• Shape and colour in language and thought. In: Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos (eds), Mental States. Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 37-60.
• NSM Semantics versus Conceptual Semantics: Goals and standards (A response to Jackendoff). Intercultual Pragmatics 4(4), 521-529.
• Theory and empirical findings: A response to Jackendoff. Intercultual Pragmatics 4(3), 399-409.
• Two languages, two cultures, one (?) self: Between Polish and English. In: Mary Besemeres and Anna Wierzbicka (eds.), Translating Lives: Living with two languages and cultures. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press. 96-113.
• Do all languages have the same expressive power? An NSM perspective on semantic variation and universals. In: Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest (ed.), Combat pour les langues du monde. Fighting for the world's languages: Hommage à Claude Hagège. Paris: L'Harmattan.483-496.

2006

• Shape in grammar revisited. Studies in Language 30(1), 115-177.
• There are no 'colour universals', but there are universals of visual semantics. Anthropological Linguistics, 47(2), 217-244.
• The semantics of colour: A new paradigm. In: C. P. Biggam and C. J. Kay (eds), Progress in Colour Studies. Volume 1: Language and Culture. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-24.
• The concept of 'dialogue' in cross-linguistic and cross-cutural perspective. Discourse Studies 8(5), 675-703.
• Anglo scripts against "putting pressure" on other people and their linguistic manifestations. In: Cliff Goddard (ed.), Ethnopragmatics: Understanding discourse in cultural context. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 31-63.
• "Experience" in John Searle's account of mind: Brain, mind, and Anglo culture. Intercultural Pragmatics 2(2), 241-255.
• On folk conceptions of mind, agency and morality. Journal of Cognition and Culture [Special Issue on Folk Conceptions of Mind, Agency and Morality] 6(1/2), 165–179.

2005

• Universal human concepts as a tool for exploring bilingual lives. International Journal ofBilingualism 9(1), 7-26. (Special Issue on "Cognitive approaches to bilingualism" edited by Istvan Kecskes)
• Semantic primitives. In: The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Second edition. Edited by Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier. Vol. 2, 134-137.
• Intercultural pragmatics and communication. In: The Encyclopedia of Languageand Linguistics. Second edition. Edited by Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier. Vol 5, 735-742.
• In defense of 'culture'. Theory and Psychology 15(4), 575-597. (Special issue on "Culture'"edited by H. J. Stam)
• Empirical universals of language as a basis for the study of other human universals and as a tool for exploring cross-cultural differences. Ethos 33(2), 256-291.
• There are no 'color universals', but there are universals of visual semantics. Anthropological Linguistics 47(2), 217-244.

2004

• Jewish cultural scripts and the interpretation of the Bible. Journal of Pragmatics 36(3), 575-599.
• 'Happiness' in a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. Daedalus 133(2), 34-43.
• Conceptual primes in human languages and their analogues in animal communication and cognition. Language Sciences 26(5), 413-441.
• The English expressions good boy and good girl and cultural models of child rearing. Culture & Psychology 10(3), 251-278.
• Polish and universal grammar. Studies in Polish Linguistics 1, 9-28.
• Bilingual lives, bilingual experience. Journal of Multilingual and MulticulturalDevelopment. 25(2&3), 94-104. (Preface to the Special edition on "Bilingualism and emotions" edited by Jean-Marc Dewaele and Aneta Pavlenko)
• 'Prototypes Save'. In: Bas Aarts, David Denison, Evelien Keizer and Gergana Popova (eds), Fuzzy Grammar: A reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 461-478.
• (with Cliff Goddard). Cultural scripts: What are they and what are they good for? Intercultural Pragmatics 2, 153-165. (Special issue on "Cultural scripts")

2003

• Semantic primitives. In: International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Edited by William J. Frawley. New York: Oxford University Press. Vol. 4, 12-13.
• Sexism in grammar: The semantics of gender in Australian English. AnthropologicalLinguistics 44(2), 143-177.
• 'Reasonable man' and 'reasonable doubt': The English language, Anglo culture, and Anglo-American law. Forensic Linguistics 10(1), 1-22.
• Emotion and culture: Arguing with Martha Nussbaum. Ethos 31(4), 577-600.
• Singapore English: A semantic and cultural perspective. Multilingua 22, 327-366.
• Jewish cultural scripts and the interpretation of the Bible. Journal of Pragmatics 36(3), 575-599.
• (with Mary Besemeres) Pragmatics and cognition: The meaning of the particle "lah" in Singapore English. Pragmatics and Cognition 11(1), 3-38.
• (with Cliff Goddard) Semantics and cognition. In: Encyclopaedia of CognitiveScience. Basingstoke, England: Macmillan. 1096-1102.

2002

• Right and wrong: From philosophy to everyday discourse. Discourse Studies 4(2), 225-252.
• Australian cultural scripts – bloody revisited. Journal of Pragmatics 34(9), 1167-1209.
• English causative constructions in an ethnosyntactic perspective: Focusing on LET. In: Nick Enfield (ed.), Ethnosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 162-203.
• The semantics of metaphor and parable: Looking for meaning in the Gospels. Theoria et Historia Scientiarum IV(1): 85-106. (Special issue on "Metaphor" edited by Tomasz Komendzinski).
• Semantic primes and linguistic typology. In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Meaning and Universal Grammar – Theory and Empirical Findings. Vol. II. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 257-300.
• Semantic primes and universal grammar in Polish. In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Meaning and Universal Grammar – Theory and Empirical Findings. Vol. II. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 65-144.
• Meaning and universal grammar: Theory and empirical findings. In: Youngsoon Park (ed.), Current Trends and Prospects of Korean Linguistics in the 21st Century. Seoul: Hankookmunhwasa. 343-378.
• Philosophy and discourse: The rise of really and the fall of truly. In: Christine Béal (ed.), Langue, discours, culture (Special issue) Les Cahiers de Praxématique 38, 85-112.
• Russian cultural scripts: The theory of cultural scripts and its applications. Ethos 30(4), 401-432.
• (with N. J. Enfield) Introduction: The body in description of emotion. Pragmatics and Cognition 10(1/2), 1-25. (Special issue on "The body in description of emotion" edited by N. J. Enfield and Anna Wierzbicka)
• (with Cliff Goddard). Lexical decomposition II: Conceptual axiology. In: A. Cruse, F. Hundsnurscher, M. Job and P. R. Lutzeier (eds), Lexicology: An international handbook on the nature and structure of words and vocabularies. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 256-268.
• (with Cliff Goddard). Semantic primes and universal grammar. In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Meaning and Universal Grammar – Theory and Empirical Findings. Vol. I. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 41-85.
• (with Cliff Goddard) Language and society: Cultural concerns. In: Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier. 8315-8320.

2001

• Culturally salient Polish emotion: Przykro ['pshickro]. The International Journal of Group Tensions 30(1), 3-27. (Special Issue on "Emotions in Cultural Contexts in Space and Time" edited by W. Gerrod Parrott and Rom Harré.)
• Australian culture and Australian English: A response to William Ramson. Australian Journal of Linguistics 21(2), 195-214.
• 'Leibnizian linguistics'. In: István Kenesei and Robert M. Harnish (eds), Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse: A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 229-253.
• The conceptual system in the human mind. Humboldt Kosmos 78, 20-21.
• A response to Stuart Shanker. Current Anthropology 42(4).
• Universal semantic primitives and the semantics of the Polish aspect. In: Viktor S. Chrakovskij, Maciej Grochowski and Gerd Hentschel (eds), Studies on the Syntax and Semantics of Slavonic Languages: Paper in honour of Andrzej Boguslawski on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Oldenburg, Germany: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg. 429-448.
• (with Cliff Goddard) Language and society: cultural concerns. In: N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon. 8315-8320.
• (with Jean Harkins). Introduction. In: Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1-34.

2000

• Semantics, emotions and the meaning of the gospels. In: Teresa Cabré and Cristina Gelpi (eds), Lèxic, corpus i diccionaris. Cicle de conferències 1997-1998, Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. 103-121.
• Semantics of human facial expressions. Pragmatics and Cognition 8(1), 142-183.
• The salt of the earth: Explaining the meaning of some of Jesus' sayings in the Sermon on the Mount. In: L. L. Iomdin and L. P. Krysin (eds), Slovo v tekste i v slovare. Sbornik statej k semidesjatiletiju akademika J. D. Apresjana (Festcschrift for J. D. Apresjan.) Moscow: Jazyki Russkoj Kul'tury. 61-76.

1999

• "Universals of colour" from a linguistic point of view: A commentary on Saunders and Van Brakel. Behavioral and Brain Science 22, 723-733.
• What did Jesus mean? The Lord's Prayer translated into universal human concepts. In: Ralph Bisschops and James Francis (eds), Metaphor, Canon and Community: Jewish, Christian and Islamic approaches. Canterbury: Peter Lang. 180-216.
• A semantic basis for linguistic typology. In: Yakov G. Testelets and Ekaterina V. Rakhilina (eds), Festschrift for A. A. Kibrik. Moscow: Jazyki Russkoj Kul'tury. 26-35.
• The language of Christian belief. Quadrant Jul/Aug 1999, 62-65.
• Lexical prototypes as a universal basis for cross-linguistic identification of "parts of speech". In: Petra M. Vogel and Bernard Comrie (eds), Approaches to the Typology of Parts of Speech. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 285-317.

1998

• (with Cliff Goddard) Language, culture and meaning: Cross-cultural linguistics. In: René Dirven and Marjolin Verspoor (eds), Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 137-159.
• "Sadness" and "Anger" in Russian: The non-universality of the so-called "basic human emotions". In: Angeliki Athanasiadou and Elzbieta Tabakowska (eds), Speaking of Emotions: Conceptualisation and expression. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 3-28.
• Russian "national character" and Russian language: A rejoinder to Mondry and J. Taylor. In: Angeliki Athanasiadou and Elzbieta Tabakowska (eds), Speaking of Emotions: Conceptualisation and expression. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 49-54.
• Angst. Culture & Psychology 4(2), 161-188.
• Hell and Christ's Hyperbole. Quadrant 344, 22-26.
• Anchoring linguistic typology in universal concepts. Linguistic Typology 2(2), 141-194.
• German cultural scripts: Public signs as a key to social attitudes and cultural values. Discourse and Society 9(2), 265-306.
• The semantics of illocutionary forces. In: Asa Kasher (ed), Pragmatics: Critical concepts. London: Routledge. 114-169.
• THINK – A universal human concept and a conceptual primitive. In Jacek Juliusz Jadacki and Witold StrawiÅ„ski (eds.), In the World of Signs. Essays in Honour of Professor Jerzy Pelc. Warsaw: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Noukowe. 297-308.
• The meaning of Jesus' Parables: A semantic approach to the Gospels. In: Benjamin Biebuyck, René Dirven and John Ries (eds), Faith and Fiction: Interdisciplinary studies on the interplay between metaphor and religion. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag. 17-55.
• The semantics of English causative constructions in a universal-typological perspective. In: Michael Tomasello (ed.), The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and functional approaches to language structure. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. 113-153.
• Russian Emotional Expression. Ethos 26(4), 456-483.

1997

• Peter Singer and Christian ethics. Quadrant April 1997, 27-31.
• Conditionals and counterfactuals: Conceptual primitives and linguistic universals. In: Angeliki Athanasiadou and René Dirven (eds), On Conditionals Again. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 15-59.
• A response to Michael Bamberg. In: Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven (eds), The Language of Emotions: Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 227-229.
• The double life of a bilingual: A cross-cultural perspective. In: Michael Bond (ed.), Working at the Interface of Cultures: Eighteen lives in social science. London: Routledge. 113-125.
• (with Cliff Goddard) Discourse and culture. In: Teun A. van Dijk (ed.), Discourse as Social Interaction. (Volume 2 of Discourse Studies: A multidisciplinary introduction.) London: Sage Publications. 231-259.
• The meaning of Jesus' parables: A semantic approach to the Gospels. LAUD Series A: General and Theoretical Papers, Paper No. 407. Duisburg: Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg.
• (with Jean Harkins) Language: A key issue in emotion research. Innovation 10(4), 319-331. (Special Issue on "Emotion and culture" edited by Angelika Kofler)

1996

• Contrastive sociolinguistics and the theory of "cultural scripts": Chinese vs English. In: Marlis Hellinger and Ulrich Ammon (Eds), Contrastive Sociolinguistics [Contributions to the Sociology of Language]. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 313-344.
• Japanese cultural scripts: Cultural psychology and "cultural grammar". Ethos 24(3), 527-555.
• The semantics of logical concepts. The Moscow Linguistics Journal 2, 104-129. (Festschrift for E. V. Paducheva, edited by T.Yanko).
• Abortion, euthanasia and language: A critique of Ronald Dworkin. Quadrant July-August 1996, 54-58.

1995

• Adjectives vs. verbs: The iconicity of part-of-speech membership. In: M. Landsberg (ed.), Syntactic Iconicity and Linguistic Freezes. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 223-245.
• Dictionaries and ideologies: Three examples from Eastern Europe. In: Braj B. Kachru and Henry Kahane (eds), Cultures, Ideologies and the Dictionary: Studies in honor of Ladislav Zgusta. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. 181-195.
• Dictionaries vs Encyclopaedias: How to draw the line. In: Philip Davis (ed.), Alternative Linguistics: Descriptive and theoretical modes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 289-315.
• Emotion and facial expression: A semantic perspective. Culture & Psychology 1, 227-258.
• Everyday conceptions of emotion: A semantic perspective. In: James Russell, José-Miguel Fernández-Dols, Antony S. R. Manstead and J. C. Wellenkamp (eds), Everyday Conceptions of Emotion: An introduction to the psychology, anthropology and linguistics of emotion. Dordrecht: Kluwer. 17-47.
• In defence of Australian culture. Quadrant November 1995, 17-22.
• Kisses, handshakes, bows: The semantics of nonverbal communication. Semiotica 103(3/4), 207-252.
• Lexicon as a key to history, culture, and society. "Homeland" and "Fatherland" in German, Polish and Russian. In: René Dirven and Johan Vanparys (eds), Current Approaches to the Lexicon. A selection of papers presented at the 18th LAUD Symposium, Duisburg, March 1993 Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag. 103-155.
• The language of life and death. (Comment on Peter Singer's Rethinking Life and Death) Quadrant July/August 1995, 21-25
• The relevance of language to the study of emotions – a commentary on Lazarus. Psychological Inquiry 6(3), 248-252.
• Universal semantic primitives as a basis for lexical semantics. Folia Linguistica XXIX(1/2), 149-169.
• What did Jesus mean? The Lord's prayer translated into universal human concepts. LAUD Series A: General and Theoretical Papers, Paper No.360. Duisburg: Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg.
• A semantic basis for grammatical typology. In: Werner Abraham, T. Givón and Sandra Thompson (eds), Discourse Grammar and Typology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 179-209.
• (with Cliff Goddard). Key words, culture and cognition. Philosophica 55, 37-67.

1994

• Semantics and epistemology: The meaning of "evidentials" in a cross-linguistic perspective. Language Sciences 16(1), 81-137.
• "Cultural scripts": A semantic approach to cultural analysis and cross-cultural communication. Pragmatics and Language Learning [Monograph Series] 5, 1-24.
• Semantic primitives across languages: A critical review. In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 445-500.
• Semantic universals and "primitive thought": The question of the psychic unity of humankind. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 4(1), 23-49.
• Cognitive domains and the structure of the lexicon: The case of emotions. In: Lawrence A. Hirschfeld and Susan A. Gelman (eds), Mapping the Mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 431-452.
• "Cultural scripts": A new approach to the study of cross-cultural communication. In: M. Pütz (ed), Language Contact and Language Conflict. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 69-87.
• Emotion, language, and "cultural scripts". In: Shinobu Kitayama and Hazel Rose Markus (eds), Emotion and Culture: Empirical studies of mutual influence. Washington: American Psychological Association. 130-198.
• The universality of taxonomic categorization and the indispensability of the concept 'kind'. Rivista di Linguistica 6(2), 347-364.
• In search of tradition: the semantic ideas of Leibniz. Lexicographica 8, 10-25.
• (with Cliff Goddard) Introducing lexical primitives. In: Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka (eds), Semantic and Lexical Universals: Theory and empirical findings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 31-54.

1993

• Intercultural communication in Australia. In: G. Schulz (ed.), The Languages of Australia. Papers from the Australian Academy of Humanities Symposium 1992. 83-103.
• Reading human faces: Emotion components and universal semantics. Pragmatics and Cognition 1(1), 1-23.
• A conceptual basis for cultural psychology. Ethos 21(2), 205-231.
• The alphabet of human thoughts. In: Richard A. Geiger and Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn (eds), Conceptualizations and Mental Processing in Language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 23-51.
• What are the uses of theoretical lexicography? Dictionaries 14(1992/3), 44-78.
• Replies to discussants. Dictionaries 14 (1992/93), 139-159.
• Why do we say IN April, ON Thursday, AT 10 o'clock? In search of an explanation. Studies in Language 17(2), 437-454.
• What is prayer? In search of a definition. In: L. B. Brown (ed). The Human Side of Prayer: The psychology of praying. Birmingham, Alabama: Religious Education Press. 25-46.

1992

• Furniture and birds: A reply to Dwight Bolinger. CognitiveLinguistics 3(1), 119-123.
• Semantic primitives. In: International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics. Edited by William Bright. New York: Oxford University Press.Vol. 3, 403.
• Whatis a life form? Conceptual issues in ethnobiology. Journal ofLinguistic Anthropology 2(1), 3-29.
• Talking about emotions: Semantics, culture and cognition. Cognitionand Emotion 6(3/4),285-319. (Special issue on "Basic emotions")
• Thesemantics of interjection. Journal of Pragmatics 18(1),159-192.
• Semantic primitives and semantic fields. In: Adrienne Lehrer and Eva Feder Kittay (eds), Frames, Fields, and Contrasts: New essays in semantic and lexical organization. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 209-227.
• The search for universal semantic primitives. In: Martin Pütz (ed), Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 215-242.
• Australian b-words (bloody, bastard, bugger, bullshit): An expression of Australian culture and national character. In André Clas (ed), Le mot, les mots, les bons mots/Word, words, witty words. A Festschrift for Igor A. Mel'ÄÂÂÂuk. Montreal. Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal. 21-38.
• Defining emotion concepts. Cognitive Science 16, 539-581.
• On the name Stanislaw: The semantics of names. In: Etudes de Linguistique Romane et Slave. Krakow.
• Backto definitions: Cognition, semantics, and lexicography.Lexicographica 8, 146-174.

1991

• Japanese key words and core cultural values. Language in Society 20, 333-385.
• Semantic rules know no exceptions. Studies in Language 15(2), 371-398.
• Semantics vs. pragmatics. In: V. Prakasam (ed.), Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Linguistic Terminology. Punjabi University. 204-209.
• The semantics of grammar: A reply to Professor Palmer. Journal of Linguistics 27(2), 495-498.
• Semantic complexity: Conceptual primitives and the principle of substitutability. Theoretical Linguistics 17, 75-97.
• Lexical universals and universals of grammar. In: Michel Kefer and Johan van der Auwera (eds), Meaning and Grammar: Cross-linguistic perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 383-415.
• Ostensive definitions and verbal definitions: Innate conceptual primitives and the acquisition of concepts. In: Maciej Grochowski and Daniel Weiss (eds), Words are Physicians for an Ailing Mind. Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner. 467-480.

1990

• Antitotalitarian language in Poland: Some mechanisms of linguistic self-defense. Language in Society 19, 1-59.
• The meaning of colour terms: Semantics, culture, and cognition. Cognitive Linguistics 1(1), 99-150.
• 'Prototypes save': On the uses and abuses of the notion of 'prototype' in linguistics and related fields. In: Savas L. Tsohatzidis (ed.), Meanings and Prototypes: Studies in linguistic categorization. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 347-367.
• Emotivity in language structure. (Review of: Bronislava Volek. Emotive signs in language and semantic functioning of derived nouns in Russian.) Semiotica 80(1/2), 161-169.
• Duša (soul), toska (yearning), sud'ba (fate): Three key concepts in Russian language and Russian culture. In: Zygmunt Saloni (ed), Metody formalne w opisie jÈ©zyków sÅ‚owiaÅ„skich. [Formal methods in the description of Slavic languages] Bialystok: Bialystok University Press. 13-32.
• Introduction. Australian Journal of Linguistics 10(2), 133-138. (Special issue on "The semantics of emotions")
• The semantics of emotions: Fear and its relatives in English. Australian Journal of Linguistics 10(2), 359-375. (Special issue on "The semantics of emotions")
• Cross-cultural pragmatics and different cultural values. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 13(1), 43-76.

1989

• Soul and mind: Linguistic evidence for ethnopsychology and cultural history. American Anthropologist 91(1), 41-58.
• Semantic primitives and lexical universals. Quaderni di Semantica 10(1), 103-121.
• Baudouin de Courtenay and the theory of linguistic relativity. In: Janusz Rieger, MieczysÅ‚aw Szymczak and StanisÅ‚aw UrbaÅ„czyk (eds), Jan NiecisÅ‚aw Baudouin de Courtenay a lingwistyka Å›wiatowa. Wroclaw: Ossolineum. 51-57.
• Prototypes in semantics and pragmatics: Explicating attitudinal meanings in terms of prototypes. Linguistics 27, 731-769.
• Semantic primitives – The expanding set. Quaderni di Semantica 10(2), 309-332.
• Russian personal names: The semantics of expressive derivation. Folia Slavica 9: 314-354.

1988

• Boys will be boys: A rejoinder to Bruce Fraser. Journal of Pragmatics 12, 221-224.
• The semantics and lexicography of 'natural kinds'. In: Karl Hyldgaard-Jensen and Arne Zettersten (eds), Symposium on Lexicography III. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. 155-182.
• Semantic primitives: A rejoinder to Murray and Button. American Anthropologist 90, 686-689.
• Review of: Jef Verschueren. What People Say They Do With Words. Language in Society 17, 108-113.
• Emotions across culture: Similarities and differences (A rejoinder to Kolenda.) American Anthropologist 90(4), 982-983.
• Review of Nessa Wolfson and Joan Manes (eds), Language of Inequality. Language in Society 17, 99-146.

1987

• Boys will be boys: 'Radical semantics' vs. 'radical pragmatics'. Language 63(1), 95-114.
• Kinship semantics: Lexical universals as a key to psychological reality. Anthropological Linguistics 29(2), 131-156.
• The semantics of modality. Folia Linguistica 21(1), 25-43.

1986

• Does language reflect culture? Evidence from Australian English. Language in Society 15, 349-374.
• Human emotions: Universal or culture-specific? American Anthropologist 88(3), 584-594.
• Introduction. Journal of Pragmatics 10(5), 519-534. (Special issue on "Particles")
• Italian reduplication: Cross-cultural pragmatics and illocutionary semantics. Linguistics 24(2), 287-315.
• The meaning of a case: A study of the Polish dative. In: Richard D. Brecht and James S. Levine (eds), Case in Slavic. Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers. 386-426.
• Metaphors linguists live by: Lakoff & Johnson contra Aristotle. (Review of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By). Papers in Linguistics 19(2), 287-313.
• Precision in vagueness: The semantics of English 'approximatives'. Journal of Pragmatics 10(5), 597-614.
• Predict, prophesy, forecast: Semantics and lexicography. In: Nils Arhammar et al. (eds), Aspects of Language: Studies in Honour of Mario Alinei. Vol. II: Theoretical and Applied Semantics. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 509-523.
• A semantic metalanguage for the description and comparison of illocutionary meanings. Journal of Pragmatics 10(1), 67-107.
• Semantics and the interpretation of cultures: The meaning of 'alternate generations' devices in Australian languages. Man 21, 34-49.
• The semantics of 'internal dative' in English. Quaderni di Semantica 7(1), 121-135. [note rejoinder next]
• The semantics of the internal dative-A rejoinder. Quaderni di Semantica 7(1), 155-165. [note article above]
• The semantics of quantitative particles in Polish and in English. In: Andrzej BogusÅ‚awski and Boźena Bojar (eds), Od kodu do kodu. [A Festschrift for Olgierd Wojtasiewicz.] Warsaw: PaÅ„stwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. 175-189.
• What's in a noun? (Or: How do nouns differ in meaning from adjectives?) Studies in Language 10(2), 353-389.
• Review of: Igor Mel'ÄÂÂÂuk et al. Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain; and Igor Mel'ÄÂÂÂuk and Aleksandr Zholkovskij. Tolkovo-kombinatornyj slovar' sovremennogo russkogo jazyka. Australian Journal of Linguistics 6(1), 139-147.
• Review of: Igor Mel'ÄÂÂÂuk and Aleksandr Zholkovskij. Tolkovo-kombinatornyj slovar' sovremennogo russkogo jazyka. Language 62(3), 684-687.
• Review of: Elena Viktorovna PaduÄÂÂÂeva. Vyskazyvanie i ego sootnesennost' s dejstvitel'nost'ju. Journal of Linguistics 22, 475-500.
• Two Russian speech act verbs. Folia Slavica 8(1), 134-159

1985

• Challenge, dare, defy The semantics and lexicography of speech act verbs. Beiträge zur Phonetik und Linguistik (Festschrift in honour of Arthur Delbridge) 48, 77-92.
• Different cultures, different languages, different speech acts: Polish vs. English. Journal of Pragmatics 9, 145-178.
• The double life of a bilingual. In: R. Sussex and J. Zubrzycki (eds), Polish People and Culture in Australia. Canberra: Australian National University. 187-223.
• Oats and wheat: The fallacy of arbitrariness. In: John Haiman (ed), Iconicity in Syntax. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 311-342.
• A semantic metalanguage for a crosscultural comparison of speech acts and speech genres. Language in Society 14, 491-514.

1984

• Apples are not a "kind of fruit": The semantics of human categorization. American Ethnologist 11(2), 313-328.
• Cups and mugs: Lexicography and conceptual analysis. Australian Journal of Linguistics 4(2), 205-255.
• Diminutives and depreciatives: Semantic representation for derivational categories. Quaderni di Semantica 5(1), 123-130.
• Review of: Geoffrey Leech. Principles of pragmatics. Australian Journal of Linguistics 4(1), 99-109.
• Review of: John Lyons. Semantics. Talanya, 102-109.

1983

• Semantics and lexicography: Some comments on the Warlpiri dictionary project. In: Peter Austin (ed), Papers in Australian Linguistics 15: Australian Aboriginal lexicography. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 135-144.
• The semantics of case marking. Studies in Language 7(2), 247-275.
• Skirts and trousers: Lexicography and conceptual analysis. Wiener Slawistischer Almanach (Gewidmet Igor' A. Mel'ÄÂÂÂuk zum fünfzigsten Geburtstag) 11, 229-255.

1982

• Case marking and the nature of discussion: A rejoinder to Silverstein. Australian Journal of Linguistics 2(1), 93-95.
• Why can you have a drink when you can't *have an eat? Language 58(4), 753-799.

1981

• Case marking and human nature. Australian Journal of Linguistics 1, 43-80.

1979

• Are grammatical categories vague or polysemous? (The Japanese 'adversative' passive in a typological context.) Papers in Linguistics 12(1/2), 111-162.
• Ethno-syntax and the philosophy of grammar. Studies in Language 3(3), 313-383.

1978

• Syntax vs. semantics. Theoretical Linguistics 5(1), 115-133.

1977

• The Ignorative: The semantics of speech acts. International Review of Slavic Linguistics 2(2/3), 251-313.
• Mental language and semantic primitives. Communication and Cognition 10(3/4), 155-179.

1976

• In defense of YOU and ME. In: Wolfgang Girke and Helmut Jachnow (eds), Theoretische Linguistik in Osteuropa. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. 1-21.
• Mind and body. In: James McCawley (ed), Syntax and Semantics 7. Notes from the linguistic underground. New York: Academic Press. 129-157.
• Particles and linguistic relativity. International Review of Slavic Linguistics 1(2/2), 327-367.
• A rejoinder to Sullivan. Language Sciences 40, 24-26.
• Review of: Leon Zawadowski. Inductive Semantics and Syntax: Foundations of empirical linguistics. International Review of Slavic Linguistics 1(2/3), 385-395.

1975

• For the umpteenth time – Kinship. Language Sciences 34, 1-4.
• Topic, focus and deep structure. Papers in Linguistics 8(1/2), 59-87.
• Why "kill" does not mean "cause to die": The semantics of action sentences. Foundations of Language 13(4), 491-528.

1974

• Thesemantics of direct and indirect discourse. Papers in Linguistics 7,267-307.

1973

• In search of a semantic model of time and space. In: F. Kiefer and N. Ruwet (eds), Generative Grammar in Europe. 616-628.
• Problems of expression: Their place in the semantic theory. In: J. Rey-Debove (ed), Recherches sur les systèmes signifiants. The Hague: Mouton. 146-164.
• The semantic structure of words for emotions. In: Roman Jakobson, C.H. van Schooneveld & Dean S. Worth (eds), Slavic Poetics: Essays in honor of Kiril Taranovsky. The Hague: Mouton. 499-505.

1971

• The deep or semantic structure of the comparative. In: Arnim von Stechow (ed), Linguistische Berichte 16. Braunschweig: Viewig. 39-45.
• The semantic structure of space notions. In: Arnim von Stechow (ed), Beiträge zur generativen Grammatik. Braunschweig: Viewig. 283-291.

1970

• Descriptions or quotations? In: A. J. Greimas et al. (eds), Sign, Language, Culture. The Hague: Mouton. 627-644.

1967

• On the semantics of the verbal aspect in Polish. In: To honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. The Hague: Mouton. 2231-2249.