Anna Wierzbicka

5.8k total citations
47 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Anna Wierzbicka is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna Wierzbicka has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Language and Linguistics, 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 13 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Anna Wierzbicka's work include Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (29 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (16 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (10 papers). Anna Wierzbicka is often cited by papers focused on Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (29 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (16 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (10 papers). Anna Wierzbicka collaborates with scholars based in Australia and United States. Anna Wierzbicka's co-authors include Mary Besemeres and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Cognition & Emotion and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Anna Wierzbicka

45 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers

Anna Wierzbicka
Stephen C. Levinson Netherlands
Jennifer Coates United Kingdom
Cliff Goddard Australia
Jef Verschueren Belgium
Edwin Battistella United States
Bruce Fraser United States
Anna Wierzbicka Australia
George Yule United States
Alan Partington Italy
Marina Sbisà Italy
Stephen C. Levinson Netherlands
Anna Wierzbicka
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anna Wierzbicka

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (2019). What Christians Believe: the story of God and People. ANU Open Research (Australian National University).
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (2016). Terms of address as keys to culture and society: German "Herr" vs. Polish "Pan". ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 29–44. 3 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (2016). Back to ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’: Overcoming the Eurocentrism of Kinship Studies through Eight Lexical Universals. Current Anthropology. 57(4). 408–429. 18 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (2015). CAN THERE BE COMMON KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT A COMMON LANGUAGE?. Common Knowledge. 21(1). 141–171. 5 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (2009). Overcoming Anglocentrism in Emotion Research. Emotion Review. 1(1). 21–23. 14 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (2006). The concept of ‘dialogue’ in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. Discourse Studies. 8(5). 675–703. 45 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (2006). English. 167 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (2004). The English Expressions Good Boy and Good Girl and Cultural Models of Child Rearing. Culture & Psychology. 10(3). 251–278. 16 indexed citations
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Besemeres, Mary & Anna Wierzbicka. (2003). The meaning of the particle lah in Singapore English. Pragmatics & Cognition. 11(1). 3–38. 28 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (1993). Les universaux de la grammaire. Langue française. 98(1). 107–120. 4 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (1992). Talking about emotions: Semantics, culture, and cognition. Cognition & Emotion. 6(3-4). 285–319. 93 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (1991). Cross-Cultural Pragmatics. 345 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (1987). Boys Will be Boys: ‘Radical Semantics’ vs. ‘Radical Pragmatics‘. Language. 63(1). 95–114. 54 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (1987). English Speech Act Verbs: A Semantic Dictionary. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 250 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (1985). Different cultures, different languages, different speech acts. Journal of Pragmatics. 9(2-3). 145–178. 325 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (1985). A semantic metalanguage for a crosscultural comparison of speech acts and speech genres. Language in Society. 14(4). 491–514. 52 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (1981). Lingua Mentalis. 26 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (1981). Case marking and human nature. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 1(1). 43–80. 57 indexed citations
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Wierzbicka, Anna. (1974). The semantics of direct and indirect discourse. Paper in Linguistics. 7(3-4). 267–307. 77 indexed citations

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