Anna Wierzbicka

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Meaning and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Anna Wierzbicka, the distinguished linguist known for her theories of semantics, has written the first book that connects the English language with what she terms "Anglo" culture. Wierzbicka points out that language and culture are not just interconnected, but inseparable. She uses original research to investigate the "universe of meaning" within the English language (both grammar and vocabulary) and places it in historical and geographical perspective. This engrossing and fascinating work of scholarship should appeal not only to linguists and others concerned with language and culture, but the large group of scholars studying English and English as a second language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199884049
• Artikelnr.: 63039394

Autorenporträt

Anna Wierzbicka is Professor of Linguistics at Australian National University. She has an international reputation for her work on semantics, pragmatics, and cross-cultural linguistics. Other published works include What Did Jesus Mean? (OUP, 2001), Semantics, Culture, and Cognition (OUP, 1992), and Semantic Primitives, in which she is credited with establishing the Natural Semantic Metalanguage.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I. Meaning, History and Culture
* 1: English as a cultural universe
* 2: Anglo cultural scripts as seen through Middle Eastern eyes
* Part II. English words, From Philosophy to everyday discourse
* 3: The story of RIGHT and WRONG and its cultural implications
* 4: Being REASONABLE: A key Anglo value and its cultural roots
* 5: Being FAIR: Another key Anglo value and its cultural underpinnings
* Part III. Anglo culture reflected in English Grammar
* 6: The English Causatives: Causation and interpersonal relations
* 7: I THINK: The rise of epistemic phrases in modern English
* 8: PROBABLY: English epistemic adverbs and their cultural
significance
* Part IV. Conclusion
* 9: The "cultural baggage" of English and its significance in the
world at large

Rezensionen

A great book, one which must be applauded. The strength of the book is to propose a kind of linguistics which takes into account the various, subtle, rich, and extremely interesting interactions between language and cultural scripts. Given that books like this are rare, the author deserves countless words of praise. Alessandro Capone, Studies in Language