Re: OT: Good Books?

And Rosta scripsit:

> Philippe:
> > I would like to recommend Wierzbicka. I read
> > 'Semantics: Primes & Universals'
>
> Anna Weetabix's work is (imo) splendid for conlangers, but
> only for conlangers.
I should like to recommend at this point a paper of hers, the only work
of hers I have read, called "Russian Cultural Scripts: The Theory of
Cultural Scripts and its Applications".  This explores the English terms
"truth" and "is true", and the Russian terms "pravda" and "istina",
which overlap them in a dizzying fashion.  Si non e vero, I must say,
e ben trovato.  It's 38 pages, and online at
http://www.une.edu.au/arts/LCL/disciplines/linguistics/AW_Russian_Cultural_Scripts.pdf .

> Imagine if John Cowan were commissioned to write an encyclopedia of
> language, and you'll have a sense of what it is like.
Wow.

> I find [WFDT] quite heavy going. It's more a work of cognitive
> science than ordinary linguistics.
Indeed.  _Metaphors We Live By_ is less exotic but much more accessible.

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