Explorations in Applied Ethnolinguistics Words, Cultures, and Global Perspectives

Tribute to Bert PeetersLauren Sadow, Kerry Mullan & Cliff Goddard.- Part One: Introduction.- Chapter 1. An invitation to Applied Ethnolinguistics (Lauren Sadow, Kerry Mullan & Cliff Goddard).- Chapter 2. Language, culture, and values: six ways to see them more clearly (Bert Peeters, Lauren Sadow, Cliff Goddard & Kerry Mullan).- Chapter 3. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage: Underlying Philosophy and Basic Principles (Bert Peeters, Lauren Sadow, Cliff Goddard & Kerry Mullan).- Part Two: Doing things with simpler words.- Chapter 4. How to ask a clearer question (or, What questionnaires, surveys and rating scales can gain from a minimal language approach) (Cliff Goddard, Helen Bromhead, Ida Diget & Alena Kazmaly).- Chapter 5. Spanish explications of emotions for persons with autistism spectrum disorders (María Auxiliadora Barrios Rodríguez & Svetlana Antropova).- Chapter 6. “Solo/sola” and “Perso/persa” as recurrent words among Italian people with Depression: from pre-pandemic to pandemic situation (Maria Giulia Marini & Paola Chesi).- Chapter 7. Teaching children to read with NSM (Anna Wierzbicka & Lauren Sadow).- Chapter 8. Rendering ‘The Story of God and People’ into Minimal Russian: a translator’s commentary (Anna Gladkova).- chapter 9. Hunting for invisible pearls: some issues of translating NSM primes into Czech (Marie Pavlásková).- Part Three: What's in a Word I: Europe and the Anglosphere.- Chapter 10. Axiologies of Speaking. Scandinavian Perspectives on Verbs of Verbality (Carsten Levisen).- Chapter 11. Leuk: a little word (in Dutch) of great meaning (Margo Lecompte-Van Poucke).- Chapter 12. ‘Orange’: a culturally significant Netherlands Dutch word (Felix Ameka & Froukje Krijtenburg).- Chapter 13. "A NORMAL LIFE" in French, English and Romanian: an ethno-semantic analysis at the crossroads of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (MSN) and the Semantics of Argumentative Possibilities (SAP) (Olga Galatanu).- Chapter 14. The ethnolinguistics of ‘stranger’ and ‘acquaintance’ in English (Zhengdao Ye).- Part Four: What's in a Word II: Outside Europe.- Chapter 15. Having fun is a matter of taste: ‘funny’ words in Persian and French (Reza Arab & Kerry Mullan).- Chapter 16. Mono no aware ‘pathos of things’: exploring a cultural key word of Japanese aesthetics (Yuko Asano-Cavanagh & Rob Cavanagh).- Chapter 17. Possibility, obligation and the impersonal construction in Amharic (Mengistu Amberber).- Chapter 18. Utterance particle combinations in Hong Kong Cantonese: a semantic analysis (Helen Leung).- Chapter 19. Talking about God in Mandarin Chinese (Rui Shen).- Chapter 20. Duibuqi, baoqian, buhaoyisi: saying ‘sorry’ in Chinese Mandarin (Javan Seow & Jock Wong).- Chapter 21. Unpacking the Akan interjection apuu: a natural semantic metalanguage approach (Rachel Thompson).- Part Five: Enacting and transmitting culture.- Chapter 22. The meaning of “table manners” in Australian English: a lexical semantic study of mealtime behaviour (Sophia Waters).- Chapter 23. Articulating the unwritten norms behind hugging, kissing, and shoulder touches between friends in Australia (Lauren Sadow).- Chapter 24. Home, fear and safety in French and English: linguistic transmission of cultural values in emergent children’s literature (Séverine Didier).- Chapter 25. The conceptualisation of silence in oral cultures: cultural scripts from the Yoruba and Punjabi linguo-cultures (Lubna Akhlaq Khan).- Chapter 26. The ethnolinguistics of Christian death practices in Jish (northern Israel) (Sandy Habib).- List of publications by Bert Peeters.