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Experience, Evidence, and Sense: The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English

Autor Anna Wierzbicka
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iul 2010
This book is based on two ideas: first, that any language-English no less than any other-represents a universe of meaning, shaped by the history and experience of the men and women who have created it, and second, that in any language certain culture-specific words act as linchpins for whole networks of meanings, and that penetrating the meanings of those key words can therefore open our eyes to an entire cultural universe. In this book Anna Wierzbicka demonstrates that three uniquely English words-evidence, experience, and sense-are exactly such linchpins. Using a rigorous plain language approach to meaning analysis, she unpackages the dense cultural meanings of these key words, disentangles their multiple meanings, and traces their origins back to the tradition of British empiricism. In so doing she reveals much about cultural attitudes embedded not only in British and American English, but other global varieties of English. An interdisciplinary work, Experience, Evidence, and Sense is accessible to both scholars and students in linguistics and English, as well as historians of ideas, sociologists, anthropologists, literary scholars, and scholars of communication.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195368017
ISBN-10: 0195368010
Pagini: 472
Dimensiuni: 229 x 155 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Wierzbicka's stunning ability to distinguish fine shades of meaning (and often to correct the Oxford English Dictionary) makes this book as exciting as it is accessible. Summing Up: Highly Recommended.
All in all, the book is a thought-provoking contribution to the history of ideas. It is to be hoped that it will inspire rigorous work in several lines of research.

Notă biografică

Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University; author of English: Meaning and Culture; What Did Jesus Mean?; Semantics: Primes and Universals.