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Imprisoned in English
The Hazards of English as a Default Language
Taschenbuch von Anna Wierzbicka
Sprache: Englisch

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Imprisoned in English argues that in the present English-dominated world, social sciences and the humanities are locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English and that scholars need to break away from this framework to reach a more universal, culture-independent perspective on things human.
Imprisoned in English argues that in the present English-dominated world, social sciences and the humanities are locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English and that scholars need to break away from this framework to reach a more universal, culture-independent perspective on things human.
Über den Autor
Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University, and author of Semantics, Culture, and Cognition (1992); Semantics: Primes and Universals (1996): Understanding Cultures Through their Keywords (1997); What did Jesus Mean? (2001), and English: Meaning and Culture (2006)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • PART I: Every language draws a circle ...

  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Recognising the contingency of one's own language

  • Chapter 2. Naming the world or construing the world?

  • Chapter 3. The givens of human life

  • Chapter 4. Universal words, semantic atoms and semantic molecules

  • Chapter 5. Human bodies and human minds: what is visible and what is invisible

  • PART II: Emotions and values

  • Chapter 6. Anglo values vs. Human values: Talking about values in a global world

  • Chapter 7. Human emotions and English words: Are anger and disgust universal?

  • PART III: 'Politeness' and 'cooperation'

  • Chapter 8. Talking to other people: 'Politeness' and cultural scripts

  • Chapter 9. Doing things with other people: 'cooperation', 'interaction' and 'obš?enie'

  • PART IV: Entering other minds

  • Chapter 10. Grammar and social cognition: the Hawaiians, the Dalabons, and the Anglos

  • Chapter 11. Endangered languages, endangered meanings

  • Chapter 12. Thinking about 'things' in Yucatec and in English

  • Chapter 13. Chimpanzees and the evolution of human cognition

  • PART V: Breaking down the walls of the prison

  • Chapter 14. From ordinary (Anglo) English to Minimal English

  • PART VI: kindred thinking across disciplines

  • Preliminary remarks

  • Chapter 15. Anthropology, Psychology, Psychiatry

  • Chapter 16. Philosophy, Theology, Politics

  • Chapter 17. Linguistics: Cognitive and cultural approaches

  • Chapter 18. Bilingualism, Life writing, Translation

  • Final remarks

  • References

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199321506
ISBN-10: 0199321507
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wierzbicka, Anna
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Anna Wierzbicka
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2013
Gewicht: 0,521 kg
Artikel-ID: 108613528
Über den Autor
Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University, and author of Semantics, Culture, and Cognition (1992); Semantics: Primes and Universals (1996): Understanding Cultures Through their Keywords (1997); What did Jesus Mean? (2001), and English: Meaning and Culture (2006)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • PART I: Every language draws a circle ...

  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Recognising the contingency of one's own language

  • Chapter 2. Naming the world or construing the world?

  • Chapter 3. The givens of human life

  • Chapter 4. Universal words, semantic atoms and semantic molecules

  • Chapter 5. Human bodies and human minds: what is visible and what is invisible

  • PART II: Emotions and values

  • Chapter 6. Anglo values vs. Human values: Talking about values in a global world

  • Chapter 7. Human emotions and English words: Are anger and disgust universal?

  • PART III: 'Politeness' and 'cooperation'

  • Chapter 8. Talking to other people: 'Politeness' and cultural scripts

  • Chapter 9. Doing things with other people: 'cooperation', 'interaction' and 'obš?enie'

  • PART IV: Entering other minds

  • Chapter 10. Grammar and social cognition: the Hawaiians, the Dalabons, and the Anglos

  • Chapter 11. Endangered languages, endangered meanings

  • Chapter 12. Thinking about 'things' in Yucatec and in English

  • Chapter 13. Chimpanzees and the evolution of human cognition

  • PART V: Breaking down the walls of the prison

  • Chapter 14. From ordinary (Anglo) English to Minimal English

  • PART VI: kindred thinking across disciplines

  • Preliminary remarks

  • Chapter 15. Anthropology, Psychology, Psychiatry

  • Chapter 16. Philosophy, Theology, Politics

  • Chapter 17. Linguistics: Cognitive and cultural approaches

  • Chapter 18. Bilingualism, Life writing, Translation

  • Final remarks

  • References

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199321506
ISBN-10: 0199321507
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wierzbicka, Anna
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Anna Wierzbicka
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2013
Gewicht: 0,521 kg
Artikel-ID: 108613528
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