Abstract
Anna Wierzbicka’s semantics of primes and universals is hereby presented, in a manner requiring from the reader little familiarity with linguistic theory, as an example of a failed attempt to develop an understanding of, and a theoretical apparatus capable of dealing with, language in heteroglossia. But it is an instructive failure: it indicates a need for a linguistics from the perspective of which people’s metalinguistic awareness and practices are not disregarded.
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