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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 'ob?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 |
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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 |
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 'ob?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 |
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