This volume contributes to the growing body of cutting-edge research into the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach in linguistics. It explores the broad range of possible applications enabled by the NSM approach, from linguistic studies of semantics and culture to cross-cultural studies, psychology and childhood education. The volume builds on previous studies, bringing a diversity of voices to this area, and covering sixteen languages. The volume celebrates the life and work of the late Bert Peeters, proponent and pioneer of the NSM approach in French. It comprises contributions from Peeters’ close associates, as well as former and current students, to engage with salient aspects of his work and honour his influence on the field, including conceptualisation of the term ‘applied ethnolinguistics’. The book is divided into four sections which reflect this diversity of applications and Peeters’ work in the field: applications outside of linguistics, semantics inside and outside Europe, and cultural scripts. This book will be of interest to a wide audience of scholars and students in applied linguistics and related fields, with a particular interest for scholars in semantics, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, (language) education, Minimal English, and NSM.
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Language, culture, and values: six ways to see them more clearly
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The natural semantic metalanguage: underlying philosophy and basic principles
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How to ask a clearer question: (or What questionnaires, surveys and rating scales can gain from a minimal language approach)
Cilff Goddard, Helen Bromhead, Ida Stevia Diget, Alena Kazmaly
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Solo/sola and perso/persa as recurrent words among italian people with depression: from pre-pandemic to pandemic situation
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Rendering ‘the story of god and people’ into minimal russian: a translator’s commentary
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Hunting for invisible pearls: some issues of translating nsm primes into czech
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Oranje ‘Orange’: A culturally significant netherlands dutch word
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“A normal life” in french, english and romanian: An ethnosemantic analysis at the crossroads of natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) and the semantics of argumentative possibilities (SAP)
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Mono no aware ‘pathos of things’: exploring a cultural keyword of japanese aesthetics
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Utterance particle combinations in Hong Kong cantonese: a semantic analysis
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Unpacking the akan interjection apuu: a natural semantic metalanguage approach
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The meaning of “table manners” in australian english: a lexical semantic study of mealtime behaviour
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Home, fear and safety in french and english: linguistic transmission of cultural values in emergent children’s literature
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Conceptualisation of silence in oral cultures: cultural scripts from the yoruba and punjabi linguacultures
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