Professor Anna Wierzbicka
PhD, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1964; Habilitation, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1969
Professor (Emerita, in Linguistics)
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Linguistics 2004
- Language Studies 2003
- Linguistic Structures (Incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) 200408
- Translation And Interpretation Studies 200323
- Philosophy Of Language 220313
- Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) 200405
- Comparative Language Studies 200322
- Linguistic Anthropology 160103
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- Discourse And Pragmatics 200403
- English Language 200302
- Other European Languages 200310
- Central And Eastern European Languages (Incl. Russian) 200304
- Religious Studies 5004
- Religion, Society And Culture 500405
- Christian Studies (Incl. Biblical Studies And Church History) 220401
- Cognition 520401
- Theology 5005
Biography
Professor Anna Wierzbicka is a Professor in the Linguistics Program, School of Language Studies, Arts. In her 1972 book "Semantic Primitives" she launched a theory now known under the acronym "NSM" (Natural Semantic Metalanguage), which is now internationally recognized as one of the world's leading theories of language and meaning. This approach has been used in hundreads of semantic studies across many languages and cultures (NSM homepage, http://www.griffith.edu.au/humanities-languages/school-languages-linguistics/research/natural-semantic-metalanguage-homepage). She has published over twenty books and edited or co-edited several others. Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, cognitive science, philosophy and religious studies as well as linguistics, and has been published in many journals across all these disciplines (e.g., Language, American Anthropologist, Man, Anthropological Linguistics, Cognition and Emotion, Culture and Psychology, Ethos, Philosophica, Brain and Behaviourial Sciences, The Journal of Cognition and Culture etc). Professor Wierzbicka is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has two Honorary Doctorates, one from Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland (2004) and one from Warsaw University, Poland (2006). She is the winner of the Dobrushin Prize for 2010 (established in Russia in honour of the Russian mathematician Roland Lvovich Dobrushin) and of the Polish Science Foundation’s 2010 prize for the humanities and social sciences.
Publications
- Wierzbicka, A 2019, What Christians Believe: The Story of God and People.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2019, 'Reported speech as a pivotal human phenomenon: Commentary on Spronck and Nikitina', Linguistic Typology, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 167-175.
- Wierzbicka, A 2019, 'From 'Consciousness' to 'I Think, I Feel, I Know'', Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 26, no. 9-10, pp. 257-269.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2019, 'Direct and indirect speech revisited: Semantic universals and semantic diversity', in Alessandro Capone, Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and Alessandra Falzone (ed.), Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 173-199.
- Wierzbicka, A 2018, 'Speaking about God in universal words, thinking about God outside English', in Paul Chilton and Monika Kopytowska (ed.), Religion, Language, and the Human Mind, Oxford University Press, United States, pp. 19-51.
- Wierzbicka, A 2018, 'How much longer can the Berlin and Kay paradigm dominate visual semantics', in Diana Young (ed.), Rematerializing Colour: From Concept to Substance, Sean Kingston Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 67-90.
- Wierzbicka, A 2018, 'A 'Sense of Entitlement' encoded in English Grammar', Etnolingwistyka, vol. 30, pp. 133-143.
- Wierzbicka, A 2018, 'EMOTIONS OF JESUS', Rossiiskii Universitet Druzhby Narodov. Vestnik. Seriya Lingvistika - Russian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 38-53pp.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2018, 'Minimal English and How It Can Add to Global English', in Cliff Goddard (ed.), Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication Using Fewer Words, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke United Kingdom, pp. 5-27pp.
- Wierzbicka, A 2018, 'Charter of Global Ethic in Minimal English', in Cliff Goddard (ed.), Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication Using Fewer Words, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke United Kingdom, pp. 113-141pp.
- Wierzbicka, A 2018, 'I KNOW: A Human Universal', in Masaharu Mizumoto, Stephen Stich and Eric McCready (ed.), Epistemology for the Rest of the World, Oxford University Press, United States, pp. 215-250.
- Wierzbicka, A & Goddard, C 2018, 'Talking about our Bodies and their Parts in Warlpiri', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 31-62pp.
- Wierzbicka, A 2017, 'Talking About the Universe in Minimal English: Teaching Science Through Words That Children Can Understand', in Cliff Goddard (ed.), Minimal English for a Global World: Improved Communication Using Fewer Words, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke United Kingdom, pp. 169-200pp.
- Wierzbicka, A 2017, W co wierza chrzescijanie? Opowiesc o Bogu i o ludziach (What Christians Believe: The Story of God and People), Znak, Poland.
- Wierzbicka, A 2017, 'Kinship Terminologies: Cognitive Truth or Hocus-Pocus? A Reply to Kronenfeld', Current Anthropology, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 287-288.
- Wierzbicka, A 2017, 'The meaning of kinship terms: A developmental and cross-linguistic perspective', in Zhengdao Ye (ed.), The Semantics of Nouns, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 19-62pp.
- Wierzbicka, A & Waters, S 2017, Cultural Keywords: What languages reveal about cultures, pp. online.
- Wierzbicka, A 2017, 'Karta etyki globalnej w slowach uniwersalnych (A charter of global ethics in universal words)', in J Bartminski, S Niebrzegowska-Bartminska, M Nowosad-Bakalarczyk, J Puzynina (ed.), Etyka Slowa: Wybor opracowan (The Ethics of speech: elaborated choice), UMCS (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University), Lublin Poland, pp. 523-538.
- Wierzbicka, A 2017, 'Trzy zasady etyki slowa (Three principle of ethical speech)', in J Bartminski, S Niebrzegowska-Bartminska, M Nowosad-Bakalarczyk, J Puzynina (ed.), Etyka Slowa: Wybor opracowan (The Ethics of speech: elaborated choice), UMCS (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University), Lublin Poland, pp. 67-76.
- Wierzbicka, A 2016, '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, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York and Abingdon, pp. 62-79.
- Wierzbicka, A 2016, 'Two levels of verbal communication, universal and culture-specific', in Andrea Rocci and Louis de Saussure (ed.), Verbal Communication, De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin Germany, pp. 447-481.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2016, ''It's mine!'. Re-thinking the conceptual semantics of "possession" through NSM', Language Sciences, vol. 56, pp. 93-104.
- Wierzbicka, A 2016, 'Back to 'Mother' and 'Father' Overcoming the Eurocentrism of Kinship Studies through Eight Lexical Universals', Current Anthropology, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 408-429.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2016, 'Explicating the English lexicon of 'doing and happening'', Functions of Language, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 214-256.
- Wierzbicka, A 2016, '"Pain" and "suffering" in cross-linguistic perspective', in Cliff Goddard and Zhengdao Ye (ed.), "Happiness "and "Pain" across Languages and Cultures, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam Holland, pp. 19-43.
- Wierzbicka, A 2016, 'Overcoming the Eurocentrism in Psychological Anthropology with Lexical Universals: A Response to Naomi Quinn', Ethos: The Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 195-198.
- Wierzbicka, A 2016, 'Making sense of terms of address in European languages through the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)', Intercultural Pragmatics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 499-527.
- Goddard, C, Wierzbicka, A & Wong, J 2016, '"Walking" and "running" in English and German The conceptual semantics of verbs of human locomotion', Review of Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 303-336.
- Wierzbicka, A 2016, 'Terms of Address as Keys to Culture and Society: German Herr vs. Polish Pan', Acta Philologica, vol. 49, pp. 29-44.
- Wierzbicka, A 2015, 'The idea of a 'spoon': semantics, prehistory, and cultural logic', Language Sciences, vol. 47, pp. 66-83.
- Wierzbicka, A 2015, 'Can there be common knowledge without a common language? German Pflicht versus English Duty', Common Knowledge, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 141-171.
- Wierzbicka, A 2015, 'Language and Cultural Scripts', in Farzad Sharifian (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 339-356.
- Wierzbicka, A 2015, 'Innate Conceptual Primitives Manifested in the Languages of the World and in Infant Cognition', in Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence (ed.), The Conceptual Mind: New Directions in the Study of Concepts, MIT Press, United States, pp. 379-412.
- Wierzbicka, A 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, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-37.
- Wierzbicka, A 2015, 'The meaning of colour words in a cross-linguistic perspective', in Andrew J Elliot, Mark D Fairchild and Anna Franklin (ed.), Handbook of Color Psychology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 295-316.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2015, 'What does Jukurrpa ('Dreamtime', 'the Dreaming') mean? A semantic and conceptual journey of discovery', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 2015/1, no. 1, pp. 43-65.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2014, Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics across Domains, Languages and Cultures, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2014, 'Semantic fieldwork and lexical universals', Studies in Language, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 80-126.
- Wierzbicka, A 2014, '"Pain" and "suffering" in cross-linguistic perspective', International Journal of Language and Culture, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 149-173.
- Wierzbicka, A 2014, 'Moral absolutes and the multiplicity of languages engaging with Raimond Gaita', in Anna Kozlowska and Agnieszka Swiatek (ed.), Znaczenie Tekst Kultura (The Meaning of Cultural Text), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kardynala Stefana Wyszynskiego, Warsaw Poland, pp. 119-138.
- Wierzbicka, A 2014, Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default Language, Oxford University Press, United States.
- Goddard, C, Wierzbicka, A & Fabrega Jr, H 2014, 'Evolutionary semantics: using NSM to model stages in human cognitive evolution', Language Sciences, vol. 42, pp. 60-79.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2014, Words and Meanings: Lexical Semantics Across Domains, Languages, and Cultures, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Wierzbicka, A 2014, 'Polish Zwierzeta 'Animals' and Jablka 'Apples': an Ethnosemantic Inquiry', in Adam Glaz, David S. Danaher and Przemyslaw Lozowski (ed.), The Linguistic Worldview: Ethnolinguistics, Cognition, and Culture, Versita, London, pp. 137-159.
- Wierzbicka, A 2013, 'Kinship and Social Cognition in Australian Languages: Kayardild and Pitjantjatjara', Australian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 302-321.
- Wierzbicka, A 2013, 'Translatability and the scripting of other peoples' souls', Australian Journal of Anthropology, The, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1-21.
- Wierzbicka, A 2013, 'Rejoinder', Australian Journal of Anthropology, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 28-29.
- Wierzbicka, A 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 (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of English, Oxford University Press, Oxford United Kingdom, pp. 434-445.
- Wierzbicka, A 2012, 'When cultural scripts clash: Miscommunication in "multicultural Australia"', in Kryk-Kastovsky, Barbara (ed.), Intercultural Miscommunication Past and Present, Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, pp. 121-146.
- Wierzbicka, A 2012, 'Is 'Pain' a Human Universal? Conceptualisation of 'pain' in English, French and Polish', Colloquia Communia, vol. 1, no. 92, pp. 29-53.
- Wierzbicka, A 2012, 'Pain: Universal but culturally shaped', Emotion Review, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 324-325.
- Wierzbicka, A 2012, 'Is Pain a Human Universal?: A Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspective on Pain', Emotion Review, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 307-317.
- Wierzbicka, A 2012, ''Advice' in English and in Russian: A contrastive and cross-cultural perspective', in Holger Limberg and Miriam A. Locher (ed.), Advice in Discourse, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 309-331.
- Wierzbicka, A 2012, 'Understanding others requires shared concepts', Pragmatics and Cognition, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 356-379.
- Wierzbicka, A 2012, 'The Semantics of "Sex" in a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective', in Ju. Apresjan, I. Boguslavsky, M.-C. L'Homme, L. Iomdin, J. Milicevic (ed.), Meaning, Texts, and Other Exciting Things: A Festschrift to Commemorate the 80th Anniversary of Professor Igor Alexandroviĉ Mel'ĉuk, Languages of Slavic Culture, Moscow, Russia, pp. 641-649.
- Wierzbicka, A 2010, 'On emotions and on definitions: A response to Izard', Emotion Review, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 379-380.
- Wierzbicka, A & Besemeres, M, eds, 2007, Translating Lives: Living with two Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Australia.
- Wierzbicka, A 2011, Semantic Universals and Basic Concepts, Jazyki slavjanskoj kultury, Moscow Russia.
- Wierzbicka, A 2011, 'Defining 'the humanities'', Culture and Psychology, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 31-46.
- Wierzbicka, A 2011, 'Polish 'Value Words' in Competitive Perspective', Etnolingwistyka, vol. 23, pp. 45-66.
- Wierzbicka, A 2011, 'Bilingualism and cognition: The perspective from semantics', in Vivian Cook & Benedetta Bassetti (ed.), Language and Bilingual Cognition: A Different Way of Thinking, Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis, New York, pp. 191-218.
- Wierzbicka, A 2011, 'Uniwersalia ugruntowane empirycznie (Empirically grounded universals)', Teksty Drugie, vol. 1/2, pp. 13-30.
- Wierzbicka, A 2011, 'Arguing in Russian: Why Solzhenitsyn's fictional arguments defy translation', Russian Journal of Communication, vol. 4, no. 1/2, pp. 8-37.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2011, 'Semantics and cognition', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 125-135.
- Wierzbicka, A 2011, 'What's wrong with "happiness studies"? The cultural semantics of happiness, bonheur, gluck and scast'e', in (ed.), Word and Language (Slovo i Jazyk), Jazyki slavjanskoj kultury, Moscow, pp. 155-171.
- Wierzbicka, A 2011, 'Common language of all people: The innate language of thought', Problems of Information Transmission, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 378-397.
- Wierzbicka, A 2010, ''Story' - An English cultural keyword and a key interpretive tool of Anglo culture', Narrative Inquiry, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 153-181.
- Besemeres, M & Wierzbicka, A 2010, 'Is there thought without language?', in Marek Kuczynski (ed.), Language, Thought and Education: Vol. 2, Uniwersytet Zielonogorski, Zielona Gora, Poland, pp. 11-21.
- Besemeres, M & Wierzbicka, A 2010, 'Emotion terms as a window on culture, social psychology and subjective experience', in S V Ionov (ed.), Jazyk i emociia, Volgogradskoe Nauchnoe Izdatel'stvo, Volgograd, pp. 14-32.
- Wierzbicka, A 2010, 'Lexical universals of kinship and social cognition', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 403-404.
- Goddard, G & Wierzbicka, A 2010, 'Semantics and cognition', Wires: Cognitive Science, vol. 2, pp. 125-135.
- Wierzbicka, A 2010, ''Eating' and 'drinking' in Kalam', in John Bowden, Nikolaus P Himmelmann & Malcolm Ross (ed.), A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space: Papers in honour of Andrew Pawley, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, ACT, pp. 651-660.
- Wierzbicka, A 2010, 'Cultural scripts and international communication', in Anna Trosborg (ed.), Pragmatics Across Languages and Cultures, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, pp. 43-78.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2010, ''Want' is a lexical and conceptual universal: Reply to Khanina', Studies in Language, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 108-123.
- Wierzbicka, A 2010, Experience, Evidence, and Sense: The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English, Oxford University Press, New York, USA.
- Wierzbicka, A 2010, 'Cross-cultural communication and miscommunication: The role of cultural keywords', Intercultural Pragmatics, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-23.
- Wierzbicka, A 2010, 'The 'History of Emotions' and the Future of Emotion Research', Emotion Review, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 269-273.
- Wierzbicka, A 2010, 'Cultural Scripts', in Louise Cummings (ed.), The Pragmatic's Encyclopedia, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 92-95.
- Wierzbicka, A 2009, '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, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, pp. 65-89.
- Wierzbicka, A 2009, 'Language and Metalanguage: Key Issues in Emotion Research', Emotion Review, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-14.
- Wierzbicka, A 2009, '"Reciprocity": an NSM approach to linguistic typology and social universals', Studies in Language, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 103-175.
- Wierzbicka, A 2009, 'Pragmatics and Cultural Values: The Hot Centre of Russian Discourse', in Bruce Fraser and Ken Turner (ed.), Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey - a Festschrift, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, Bingley, UK, pp. 423-434.
- Wierzbicka, A 2009, 'Exploring English Phraseology with Two Tools: NSM Semantic Methodology and Google', Journal of English Linguistics, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 101-129.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2009, 'Contrastive semantics of physical activity verbs: 'Cutting' and 'chopping' in English, Polish and Japanese', Language Sciences, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 60-96.
- Wierzbicka, A 2009, 'Case in NSM: A reanalysis of the Polish dative', in Andrej Malchukov and Andrew Spencer (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Case, Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp. 151-169.
- Wierzbicka, A 2009, 'Overcoming Anglocentrism in Emotion Research', Emotion Review, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 21-23.
- Besemeres, M & Wierzbicka, A 2009, 'The Concept of Frustration: A Culture-Specific Emotion and a Cultural Key Word', in Agata Blachnio and Aneta Przepiorka (ed.), Closer to Emotions III, Wydawnictwo KUL, Lublin, pp. 211-226.
- Wierzbicka, A 2009, 'The Language of "Bullying" and "Harassment"', Quadrant, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 102-107.
- Wierzbicka, A 2009, 'What makes a good life? A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective', Journal of Positive Psychology: dedicated to furthering research and promoting good practice, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 260-272.
- Wierzbicka, A 2009, 'The Theory of the Mental Lexicon', in S Kempgen, P. Kosta, T. Berger and K Gutschmidt (ed.), Die slavischen Sprachen/The Slavic Languages: An International Handbook of their Structure, their History and their Investigation, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, pp. 848-863.
- Wierzbicka, A 2008, 'Metatekst w tekÅ?cie (Metatext in the text)', in Danuta Ostaszewska and Romuald Cudak (ed.), Polska Genologia Lingwistyczna, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Pwn, Warsaw, Poland, pp. 281-296.
- Wierzbicka, A 2008, 'Imeet li smysl govorit' o 'russkoj jazukovoj kartine mira? (Does it make sense to speak of a Russian linguistic picture of the world?)', in Bondarko, A.V., Kustova, G.I., R.I. Rozina (ed.), DinamiÄ?eskie Modeli: Slovo, Predloženie, Tekst (Dynamic Models: Word, Sentence, Text), Languages of Slavic Cultures, Moscow, pp. 177-189.
- Wierzbicka, A 2008, 'Podmiot rozdwojony w sobie: dwa języki, dwie kultury, jedno(?) ja (The divided self: two languages, two cultures, one(?) self', in J. Bartminskiego and A Pajdzinskiej (ed.), Podmiot w języku i kulturze (Subject in language and culture), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu, Lublin, pp. 139-159.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2008, 'New semantic primes and new syntactic frames: "Specificational BE" and "abstract THIS/IT"', in Cliff Goddard (ed.), Cross-Linguistic Semantics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 35-57.
- Wierzbicka, A 2008, 'Kazanie na Górze (The Sermon on the Mount)', Zeszyty Naukowe, vol. 3, pp. 19-57.
- Wierzbicka, A 2008, 'Why there are no 'colour universals' in language and thought', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 407-425.
- Wierzbicka, A 2008, 'Rejoinder to Paul Kay and Rolf G. Kuenhi', Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 887-889.
- Wierzbicka, A 2008, 'Modlitwa Pańska (The Lord's Prayer)', Zeszyty Naukowe, vol. 3, pp. 59-97.
- Wierzbicka, A 2008, 'A conceptual basis for research into emotions and bilingualism', Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 193-195.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2008, 'Universal human concepts as a basis for contrastive linguistic semantics', in M. de los Angeles Gomez Gonzalez, J.L. Mackenzie and E.M. Gonzalez Alvarez (ed.), Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and cognitive perspectives, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 205-226.
- Wierzbicka, A 2008, 'A conceptual basis for intercultural pragmatics and world-wide understanding', in Martin Putz & JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer (ed.), Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 3-45.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2007, 'Semantic primes and cultural scripts in language learning and intercultural communication', in Farzad Sharifian and Gary B Palmer (ed.), Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for second language learning and intercultural communication, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Philadelphia, USA, pp. 105-124.
- Goddard, C & Wierzbicka, A 2007, 'NSM analyses of the semantics of physical qualities: sweet, hot, hard, heavy, rough, sharp in cross-linguistic perspective', Studies in Language, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 765-800.
- Wierzbicka, A 2007, 'Bodies and their parts: An NSM approach to semantic typology', Language Sciences, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 14-65.
- Wierzbicka, A 2007, 'Is "remember" a universal human concept? "Memory" and culture', in Mengistu Amberber (ed.), The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 13-39.
- Besemeres, M & Wierzbicka, A 2007, 'Introduction:Translating Lives: Living with Two Languages and Cultures', in Mary Besemeres & Anna Wierzbicka (ed.), Translating Lives: Living with Two Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Australia, pp. viii-xxiv.
- Wierzbicka, A 2007, '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, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp. 49-78.
- Wierzbicka, A 2007, 'Moral sense', Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 66-85.
- Wierzbicka, A 2007, 'Theory and Empirical Findings: A Response to Jackendoff', Intercultural Pragmatics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 399-409.
- Wierzbicka, A 2007, 'Shape and colour in language and thought', in Andrea C. Schalley and Drew Khlentzos (ed.), Mental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 37-60.
- Wierzbicka, A 2007, SÅ?owa klucze: Różne jÄ?zyki - różne kultury (Keywords: Foreign languages - foreign cultures), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu, Warsaw, Poland.
- Besemeres, M & Wierzbicka, A, eds, 2007, Translating Lives: Living with two Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Australia.
- Wierzbicka, A 2007, 'Two languages, two cultures, one (?) self: Between Polish and English', in Mary Besemeres & Anna Wierzbicka (ed.), Translating Lives: Living with Two Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Australia, pp. 96-113.
- Wierzbicka, A 2006, 'On folk conceptions of mind, agency and morality. The interface between folk psychology and folk morality', Journal of Cognition and Culture, vol. 6.1-2, pp. 165-179.
- Wierzbicka, A 2006, 'Shape in grammar revisited', Studies in Language, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 115-177.
- Wierzbicka, A 2006, 'Anglo scripts against 'putting pressure' on other people and their linguistic manifestations', in Cliff Goddard (ed.), Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 31-64.
- Wierzbicka, A 2006, 'The concept of 'dialogue' in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective', Discourse Studies: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 675-703.
- Wierzbicka, A 2006, 'The semantics of colour: A new paradigm', in CP Biggam, CJ Kay (ed.), Progress in Colour Studies, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam The Netherlands, pp. 1-24.
- Wierzbicka, A 2006, 'Preface - Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar', in Bert Peeters (ed.), Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp. 1-7.
- Wierzbicka, A 2006, '"Experience" in John Searle's account of the mind: Brain, mind, and Anglo culture', Intercultural Pragmatics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 241-256.
- Wierzbicka, A 2006, English: Meaning and Culture, Oxford University Press, New York.
- Wierzbicka, A 2005, 'There are no "color universals" but there are universals of visual semantics', Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 217-244.
- Wierzbicka, A 2005, 'Universal human concepts as a tool for exploring bilingual lives', International Journal of Bilingualism, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 7-26.
- Wierzbicka, A 2005, 'W poszukiwaniu lepszego zrozumienia slow eucharystycznych', Znak Miesiecaznik, vol. 57/604, no. 9, pp. 33-55.
- Wierzbicka, A 2005, 'In Defense of Culture', Theory and Psychology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 575-597.
- Wierzbicka, A 2005, 'Empirical Universals of Language as a Basis for the Study of Other Human Universals and as a Tool for Exploring Cross-Cultural Differences', Ethos: The Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 256-291.
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- Wierzbicka, A 2002, Co mowi Jezus? Objasnianie przypowiesci ewangelicznych w stowach prostych uniwersalnych, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Pwn, Warszawa.
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- Wierzbicka, A 2002, 'The English Language: A Semantic and Cultural Perspective', Linguistics Society of Korea Summer Conference 2002, ed. YunPyo Hong (check?), Thaehaksa, Seoul, pp. 51-89.
- Wierzbicka, A 2003, 'Sexism in Grammar: The Semantics of Gender in Australian English', Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 44, pp. 143-177.
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