Anna Wierzbicka (b. 1938) was born in Poland and is a linguist at the Australian National University[?]. She is primarily known for her work in semantics, pragmatics, and cross-cultural linguistics[?] and especially for the Natural Semantic Metalanguage.
Books by Anna Wierzbicka:
- What Did Jesus Mean? Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in simple and universal human concepts (2001)
- Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and universals (1999)
- Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, Japanese (1997)
- Semantics: Primes and Universals (1996)
- Semantics, Culture and Cognition: Universal human concepts in culture-specific configurations (1992)
- Cross-cultural pragmatics: The semantics of human interaction (1991)
- The Semantics of Grammar (1988)
- English Speech Act Verbs: A semantic dictionary (1987)
- Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis (1985)
- The Case for Surface Case (1980)
- Lingua Mentalis: The semantics of natural language (1980)
- Semantic Primitives (1972)