The idea of a 'spoon': Semantics, prehistory, and cultural logic

Language Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue PA, 2015, Pages 66-83

  Wierzbicka, Anna ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural logic of artefact concepts; Lexicography and conceptual analysis; NSM; Relevance of semantics to history of food; Relevance of semantics to prehistory; Semantics as a key to cultural history

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908377439     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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