21.1972, Books: Sociolinguistics: Wierzbicka

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Title: Evidence, Experience, Sense 
Subtitle: The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	
Author: Anna Wierzbicka

Hardback: ISBN:  9780195368000 Pages: 512 Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780195368017 Pages: 512 Price: U.S. $ 29.95


Abstract:

This book is based on two ideas: first, that any language-English no less than 
any other-represents a universe of meaning, shaped by the history and 
experience of the men and women who have created it, and second, that in 
any language certain culture-specific words act as linchpins for whole 
networks of meanings, and that penetrating the meanings of those key words 
can therefore open our eyes to an entire cultural universe. In this book Anna 
Wierzbicka demonstrates that three uniquely English words-evidence, 
experience, and sense-are exactly such linchpins. Using a rigorous plain 
language approach to meaning analysis, she unpackages the dense cultural 
meanings of these key words, disentangles their multiple meanings, and 
traces their origins back to the tradition of British empiricism. In so doing she 
reveals much about cultural attitudes embedded not only in British and 
American English, but other global varieties of English.

An interdisciplinary work, "Experience, Evidence, and Sense" is accessible 
to both scholars and students in linguistics and English, as well as historians 
of ideas, sociologists, anthropologists, literary scholars, and scholars of 
communication. 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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