Anna Wierzbicka
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Anna Wierzbicka FAHA FASSA [ˈanna vʲɛʐˈbʲitska] (born 10 March 1938 in Warsaw) is a Polish linguist who is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra.[1] Brought up in Poland, she graduated from Warsaw University and emigrated to Australia in 1972, where she has lived since. With over twenty published books, many of which have been translated into other languages, she is a prolific writer.
Anna Wierzbicka | |
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Born | (1938-03-10) 10 March 1938 (age 86) |
Awards | Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science (2010) Dobrushin Award (2010) |
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Alma mater | Warsaw University |
Academic work | |
Main interests | semantics, pragmatics and cross-cultural linguistics |
Notable ideas | natural semantic metalanguage |
Wierzbicka is known for her work in semantics, pragmatics and cross-cultural linguistics, especially for the natural semantic metalanguage and the concept of semantic primes. Her research agenda resembles Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's original "alphabet of human thought". Wierzbicka credits her colleague, linguist Andrzej Bogusławski, with reviving it in the late 1960s.[2]