Anna Wierzbicka: Difference between revisions

| awards = [[Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science]] (2010),<br />Dobrushin Award (2010)

'''Anna Wierzbicka''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA|FASSA}} {{IPA-|pl|ˈanna vʲɛʐˈbʲitska|}} (born 10 March 1938 in [[Warsaw]]) is a [[PolesPolish people|Polish]] [[linguistics|linguist]] who is Emeritus Professor at the [[Australian National University]], [[Canberra]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/wierzbicka-a|title=Professor Anna Wierzbicka|publisher=[[Australian National University]] |accessdate=24 November 2014}}</ref> 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 foreignother languages, she is a prolific writer.

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She received her Ph.D.PhD from the Institute of Literary Research, [[Polish Academy of Sciences]] in 1964 and subsequently her [[habilitation]] degree five years later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fnp.org.pl/prof-anna-wierzbicka-laureatka-nagrody-fnp-2010/|title=Prof. Anna Wierzbicka – laureatka Nagrody FNP 2010|publisher=Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej|accessdate=24 November 2014}}</ref> Since 1973 she has been working at [[Australian National University|ANU]], from 1989 as a professor. 1988 saw her elected fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Anna Wierzbicka|url=https://www.humanities.org.au/our-fellows/fellows/?find_contact_id=3398&ffc_page=30|publisher=Australian Academy of the Humanities|accessdate=29 May 2018}}</ref> In 1996 she was elected a Fellow of the [[Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Academic Fellow: Professor Anna Wierzbicka FASSA, FAHA|url=https://wwwsocialsciences.assa.eduorg.au/fellows/354academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9NHAAY|publisheraccessdate=25 May 2018|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|accessdate=25 May 2018}}</ref>

Throughout her career she has collaborated closely with Polish researchers, and was awarded the [[Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science]] for developing the theory of the natural semantic metalanguage and discovering a set of elementary meanings common to all languages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fnp.org.pl/prof-anna-wierzbicka-laureatka-nagrody-fnp-2010/|title=Prof. Anna Wierzbicka – laureatka Nagrody FNP 2010. |publisher=Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej.|date=|accessdate=17 December 2015}}</ref> Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, cognitive science, philosophy, and religious studies as well as linguistics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/wierzbicka-a|title=Professor Anna Wierzbicka|publisher=[[Australian National University]] |accessdate=17 December 2015}}</ref>

In her 1972 book, "''Semantic Primitives"'', she launched a theory of [[natural semantic metalanguage]], a theory of language and meaning that is intended to be language neutral. Over the next 35 years, Wierzbicka refined the concept and developed an inventory of about 200 basic meanings that are established/checked with a sequence of five statements.<ref>Wierzbicka, Anna. 2013. ''Imprisoned in English.'' Oxford University Press.</ref> She claims these meanings to be the nucleus of human language as such.

* [[Dobrushin Award]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iitp.ru/en/awards/22.htm|title=Dobrushin International Award|publisher=|accessdate=24 November 2014}}</ref> (2010)

Anna Wierzbicka has published over 300 articles in journals from the disciplines her work spans, including ''Language'', ''[[Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist]]'', ''Man'', ''[[Anthropological Linguistics (journal)|Anthropological Linguistics]]'', ''[[Cognition and Emotion]]'', ''Culture and Psychology'', ''Ethos'', ''Philosophica'', ''Brain[[Behavioral and BehaviourialBrain Sciences]]'' and ''[[The Journal of Cognition and Culture]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/wierzbicka-a|title=Professor Anna Wierzbicka|date= |publisher=[[Australian National University]] |accessdate=17 December 2015}}</ref>

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