Imprisoned in English : the hazards of English as a default language / Anna Wierzbicka.
2014
306.44 W648i 2014
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Title
Imprisoned in English : the hazards of English as a default language / Anna Wierzbicka.
Author
ISBN
9780199321506 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0199321507 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780199321490 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0199321493 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0199321507 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780199321490 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0199321493 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Language
English
Description
xii, 287 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
306.44 W648i 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)847842685
(OCoLC)847842685
(OCoLC)847842685
Summary
In Imprisoned in English, Anna Wierzbicka argues that in the present English-dominated world, millions of people - including academics, lawyers, diplomats, and writers - can become "prisoners of English", unable to think outside English. In particular, social sciences and the humanities are now increasingly locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English. To most scholars in these fields, treating English as a default language seems a natural thing to do. The book's approach is interdisciplinary, and its themes range over areas of central interest to anthropology, psychology, and sociology, among others. The linguistic material is drawn from languages of America, Australia, the Pacific, South-East Asia and Europe. Wierzbicka argues that it is time for human sciences to take advantage of English as a global lingua franca while at the same time transcending the limitations of the historically-shaped conceptual vocabulary of English. And she shows how this can be done.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Recognizing the contingency of one's own language
Naming the world or construing the world?
The givens of human life
Universal words, semantic atoms and semantic molecules
Human bodies and human minds: what is visible and what is invisible
Anglo values vs. human values: talking about values in a global world
Human emotions and English words: are anger and disgust universal?
Taking to other people: "politeness" and cultural scripts
Doing things with other people: "cooperation," "interaction" and "obščenie"
Grammar and social cognition: the Hawaiians, the Dalabons, and the Anglos
Thinking about "things" in Yucatec and in English
Endangered languages, endangered meanings
Chimpanzees and the evolution of human cognition
From ordinary (Anglo) English to Minimal English
Anthropology, psychology, psychiatry
Philosophy, theology, politics
Linguistics: cognitive and cultural approaches
Bilingualism, life writing, translation.
Naming the world or construing the world?
The givens of human life
Universal words, semantic atoms and semantic molecules
Human bodies and human minds: what is visible and what is invisible
Anglo values vs. human values: talking about values in a global world
Human emotions and English words: are anger and disgust universal?
Taking to other people: "politeness" and cultural scripts
Doing things with other people: "cooperation," "interaction" and "obščenie"
Grammar and social cognition: the Hawaiians, the Dalabons, and the Anglos
Thinking about "things" in Yucatec and in English
Endangered languages, endangered meanings
Chimpanzees and the evolution of human cognition
From ordinary (Anglo) English to Minimal English
Anthropology, psychology, psychiatry
Philosophy, theology, politics
Linguistics: cognitive and cultural approaches
Bilingualism, life writing, translation.
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