Anna Wierzbicka

Experience, Evidence, and Sense

The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English

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Produktbeschreibung

Anna Wierzbicka demonstrates that three uniquely English words--evidence, experience, and sense--are linchpins for whole networks of meanings, and that penetrating the meanings of such key words can open our eyes to an entire cultural universe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 870g
• ISBN-13: 9780195368000
• ISBN-10: 0195368002
• Artikelnr.: 26926948

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

PART I. INTRODUCTION
Making the familiar look foreign
PART II. EXPERIENCE AND EVIDENCE
Experience: an English key word and cultural theme
Evidence: words, ideas, and cultural practices
PART III. SENSE
The discourse of sense and the legacy of "British Empiricism"
A sense of humor, a sense of self and similar expressions
A strong sense, a deep sense and similar expressions
Moral sense
Common sense
From having sense to making sense
PART IV. PHRASEOLOGY, SEMANTICS AND CORPUS LINGUISTICS
Investigating English phraseology with two tools: NSM and Google
Notes
References
Appendix
Index