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This book presents cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigations of word meaning from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. The words they consider are complex, culturally important, and basic, in a range of languages that includes English, Russian, Polish, French, Warlpiri and Malay.

Introduces readers to the linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. This book includes word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems, communicative style. This is a useful text for students of linguistics, Asian languages, and Asian studies.