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1 What does it mean to feel..... jealousy? envy?

2 X felt jealousy because Y was with Z. X felt envy because Y was with Z.

3 someone thinks something like this at this time:
‘something good happened to this other someone it didn’t happen to me I want things like this to happen to me’ because of this, this someone feels something bad towards this other someone

4 The Synonym Trap: Synonyms make lousy definitions
Presented By: Kris Mitchell

5 Key Concepts in Semantic Analysis
Metalanguage Semantic Primitives (primes) Universality Ethnocentrism and Anglocentrism Linguistic vs Encyclopedia Knowledge Semantics vs Pragmatics

6 Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)
Anna Wierzbicka – Australian National University Cliff Goddard – Griffith University Key Concepts Primes/Molecules/Exponents/Allolexy Reductive Paraphrase Syntax Explications

7 Surprise Words in English
Surprised: feeling or showing surprise Amazed: very surprised Shocked: surprised and upset; showing that somebody feels surprised and upset Startled: slightly shocked or frightened because of a sudden surprise (Oxford Learner’s Dictionary)

8 Get Words in English get: to receive something to obtain something
to obtain or receive an amount of money by selling something receive: to get or accept something that is sent or given to you obtain: to get something, especially by making an effort accept: to receive something as suitable or good enough (Oxford Learner’s Dictionary)

9 Get Word Explications someone doesn’t have something something happens because of this, after this, this someone has this something X doesn’t have Y X wants to have Y because of this X does some things for some time when X does these things for some time, X can have Y because of this, after this, X has Y

10 Get Word Explications X wants Y to have something Y thinks: ‘it is good if I have this thing’ because of this, Y says: ‘I can have this thing’ because of this, after this, Y has this thing X does something because of this, this thing can be with X because of this, after this, X has this thing

11 Fear Words in English afraid: feeling fear; frightened because you think that you might be hurt or suffer frightened: afraid; feeling fear terrified: very frightened (Oxford Learner’s Dictionary)

12 References Dale, R., Moisl, H. & Somers, H. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook of natural language processing, New York: Marcel Dekker. Harkins, J. & Wierbicka, A. (Eds.). (2001). Emotions in crosslinguistic perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Goddard, C. (1997). Contrastive semantics and cultural psychology: ‘Surprise’ in Malay and English. Culture and Psychology, 3(2), Goddard, C. (1998). Bad arguments against semantic primitives. Theoretical Linguistics, 24(2/3), Goddard, C. (2000). ‘Cultural scripts’ and communicative style in Malay (Bahasa Melayu). Anthropological Linguistics 42(1), Goddard, C. (2005). The languages of east and southeast Asia: An introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Goddard, C. (2011). Semantic analysis: A practical introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Goddard, C. & Schalley, A. C. (2010). Semantic analysis. In R. Dale, H. Moisl & H. Somers (eds.), Handbook of natural language processing (p ), New York: Marcel Dekker. Goddard, C. & Wierzbicka, A. (1997). Discourse and culture. In T. van Dijk (Ed.), Discourse as social interaction (pp ). London: Sage. Goddard, C. & Wierzbicka, A. (2007). Semantic primes and cultural scripts in language learning and intercultural communication. In F. Sharifan & G. B. Palmer (eds.), Applied cultural linguistics: Implications for second language learning and intercultural communication, (p ), Amsterdam: J. Benjamins. Sharifan, F. & Palmer, G. B. (eds.). (2007). Applied cultural linguistics: Implications for second language learning and intercultural communication, Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Slabakova, R. (2010) Semantic theory and second language acguisition. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 30(1), p Ye, Z. (2001). An inquiry into ‘sadness’ in Chinese. In J. Harkins & A. Wierzbicka (Eds.), Emotions in crosslinguistic perspective (p ). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Van Dijk, T. (Ed.). (1997). Discourse as social interaction. London: Sage.


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