Duša, toska, sud’ba sau limba rusă din perspectiva etnolingvisticii: o privire asupra concepţiei Annei Wierzbicka
Duša, toska, sud'ba or Russian language from the perspective of ethnolinguistics: A look at Anna Wierzbicka's conception

Summary/Abstract: This paper revisits Anna Wierzbicka’s view on The Russian Language (In: A. Wierzbicka. Semantics, Culture, and Cognition) and gives a brief account of this important theoretical perspective in contemporary semantics; sketches some possible tracks for a criticism of this view, with reference to linguistic typology, language history, statistics; acknowledges the practical use of Wierzbicka’s theory in Russian language teaching and in the study of cross-cultural communication.

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