Studies in ethnopragmatics, cultural semantics, and intercultural communication : minimal English (and beyond) /: minimal English (and beyond). (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Minimal English (and beyond)
• Further Information: Note: Lauren Sadow, Bert Peeters, Kerry Mullan, editors.
• Editors: Sadow, Lauren; Peeters, Bert, 1960-; Mullan, Kerry
• Contents: Semantic Analysis -- Semantic challenges in understanding Global English: hypothesis, theory and proof in Singapore English -- The conceptual semantics of alienable possession in Amharic -- Explication mix & match: how NSM can explain clusters of Cantonese utterance particles -- The confounding Mandarin colour term 'qing: green, blue, black or all of the above and more? -- Postcolonial prepositions: semantics and geopolitics in the Danosphere -- The meaning of list constructions -- Meanings of coming "amædæn" and going "ræftæn" in Persian -- Where have all the verbs gone? Remarks on two languages with small, closed verb classes -- Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication -- An NSM-based cultural dictionary of Australian English -- Using NSM and "minimal" language for intercultural learning -- Building a Spanish Dictionary with semantic primes and molecules: a semi-experimental proposal -- From Expensive English to Minimal English: glossary terms for PNG agricultural development.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 253 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 306.442; Language and culture; Semantics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789813299795; 9813299797
• Related ISBNs: 9789813299788
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 30, 2019).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.