Editing Anna Wierzbicka (section)

==Biography==
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Wierzbicka was born in 1938, just before the outbreak of World War II.
She received her 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|work=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://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9NHAAY|accessdate=25 May 2018|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia}}</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. |work=Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej |publisher=Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej.|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>