James W. Underhill, Mariarosaria Gianninoto

Migrating Meanings (eBook, PDF)

Sharing Keywords in a Global World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks into the fundamental concepts with which we think, and which form the key concepts for discussing democracy in the Western world: 'the individual', 'the people', and 'the citizen'. But it is also about the emerging political context within which we live, Europe. The question is: Does democracy mean the same thing for a Chinese worker in the suburbs of a metropolis and for a worker in Newcastle or Glasgow? Do the words for 'citizen' and 'the people' coincide in English and Chinese? How do the Chinese perceive Europe? As a competitor, an ally, a source of inspiration? Or as an enemy? What have we to learn about ourselves from seeing our worldview from another perspective? Can we enter into the Chinese worldview? And in these times of radical changes in geopolitics in the globalized world, how is that Chinese worldview changing? And can we not consider the Chinese worldview as a myriad of political, cultural, and religious worldviews? If so, how do those worldviews compete?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748696956
• Artikelnr.: 72428519

Autorenporträt

James W. Underhill is a Professor at Rouen University, France. He has worked as a professional translator of both French and Czech and has published articles on poetics, metaphor and translation. He is the author of Creating Worldviews: Ideology, Metaphor and Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) and Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts: Truth, Love, Hate and War (Cambridge University Press, 2012). The Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project (REP) was founded by James W. Underhill in the framework of the ERIAC RESEARCH GROUP at the University of Rouen, in Northern France. REP aims to further investigations into the philosophy of language and explorations of worldviews. You can find out more about the project here: Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: The People
Chapter Two: Citizen
Chapter Three: Individual
Chapter Four: Europe
A Final Word
Glossary, Selected Reading, Abbreviations, References, Corpora and
Databases, Books & Articles