A Semantic Menagerie: The Conceptual Semantics of Ethnozoological Categories

A semantic analysis of words belonging to different levels of the English ethnosoological hierarchy is offered. The approach of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage is used. The questions of the degree of presence of cultural components are considered.

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