Imprisoned in English

Name: Imprisoned in English
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780199321506
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The Hazards of English as a Default Language

Autor: Anna Wierzbicka

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Editura: Oxford University Press Inc

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Imprisoned in English argues that in the present English-dominated world, social sciences and the hu...

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Autor

Anna Wierzbicka

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2013

Pagini

304

EAN

9780199321506

ISBN

0199321507

Enbook ID

04532054

Editura

Oxford University Press Inc

Greutate

490

Dimensiuni

233 x 159 x 23

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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 most scholars in these fields are not aware of the need to break away from this framework to reach a more universal, culture-independent perspective on things human. Indeed they are typically not aware that any problem exists, and resistant to its being pointed out. The book engages with current debates across a range of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary science, psychology, and cognitive science, as well as linguistics. The topics include values, emotions, social cognition, intercultural communication, endangered languages, human universals vs. human diversity, the evolution of consciousness, etc. It is a book dedicated to one central idea: the blind spot in contemporary social sciences and the prevailing global discourse on values, the human condition, human relations, and so on, which results from the

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