“Global English, Minimal English: Towards better intercultural communication”

https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/hrc/u78/Global_English_Minimal_English%20position%20papers.pdf

Position Statement
Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka

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#SemanticPrimes

What is Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)?

Maria Zijlstra is talking with Anna Wierzbicka on ABC radio about what Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LErSTlI0Jhg

toot ! 🐘

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Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Anna Wierzbicka / 27 APR 2015

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118611463.wbielsi150/abstract

[NSM] has a minilexicon of 65 semantic primes or “atoms of meaning” (e.g., “good” and “bad,” “do” and “happen”) and 50 or so universal “semantic molecules” (e.g., “man,” “woman,” and “child”; “fire” and “water”) and a minigrammar.

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#nimi65
#anno2015