A team of @Griffith_Uni researchers working on a variety of languages & related disciplines and using Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) in their analysis.
My blog post on the emotional impact of climate change and environmental destruction, exploring different emotional vocabularies. Ecological emotions in an era of global boiling: A view from linguistics – by Helen Bromhead medicinanarrativa.eu/ecologi…
“Danish in the Making” is wishing our followers a great summertime! 🤗🍓
But first we would like to tweet a bit a bit about last week’s intense research activities & conference organisation at #NSM_Con2023
I’m speaking today at #NSM_Con2023, on: “What is ‘art’? Explicating two meanings of ‘art’ in simple translatable words”.
3:15pm AEST, 7:15 CEST, 22:30 PDT
After me, talks on Filipino, Danish n lots more @GC_SocialCulur Join!
eventbrite.com.au/e/nsm-con2…
After much work by @MariePavlaskova, we are very happy to share that the Czech resources for NSM primes are now available on the website. The table, chart, and diagram are ready to be used, along with release notes. Find them all here:
nsm-approach.net/resources#nsm_semantics
We had a great time at our NSM Lab few weeks back talking about the challenges of finding primes in Czech with Marie Pavlásková and about using corpus data from @AKazmaly. Look out for NSM resources in Czech coming soon!
#NSM_semantics#linguistics#semantics
Anna Wierzbicka has put together a reading list of "The best books on meaning and language and why it matters" on @Shepherd_books Have a look! shepherd.com/best-books/mean…
This week's YouTube video from #NSM_Con2022 is from Anna Wierzbicka, who presented a feature talk on "“People can think like this” and similar frames: Their place in NSM semantics" Watch it here: youtu.be/_gDfpZYwqZY
Another speed talk from #NSM_Con2022 is now available! Susana Silvia Fernández and Ana Paulla Braga Mattos sharing their work on "esperanza/esperança" as a cultural keyword of Latin America. Watch it here >
youtu.be/rDomu-Vr7Lw
This week, we’re sharing Marie Pavlásková’s talk from #NSM_Con2022 on "Distrust that protects us: On the Czech counterpart of common sense"
youtu.be/W-KrpyTZYZw
In our next video from #NSM_Con2022 we have a speed talk by David Bullock on 'Molecule Dependency Reports’ - one of the exiting digital tools for NSM researchers he’s been working on.
youtu.be/S7o_iCkVzj8
At #NSM_Con2022, Hiromichi Sakaba shared some fascinating work on the difference between the Japanese “mottainai” and English “wasteful”. Watch his talk here > youtu.be/xflsZ6ZeupQ
In our first video from #NSM_Con2022, the winner of the Bert Peeters prize for best student essay in NSM semantics @KayYeo1 presents her work on "Understanding an ‘atas Singaporean’: The cultural semantics of the Singlish keyword atas" youtu.be/piP5xm3gfbI