30.4626, Books: Migrating Meanings: Underhill, Gianninoto

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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:42:13
From: Anna Glazier [Anna.Glazier at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Migrating Meanings: Underhill, Gianninoto

 


Title: Migrating Meanings 
Subtitle: Sharing Keywords in a Global World 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
	   www.edinburghuniversitypress.com
	

Book URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-migrating-meanings.html 


Author: James Underhill
Author: Mariarosaria Gianninoto

Electronic: ISBN:  9781474447379 Pages: 400 Price: U.K. £ 95
Electronic: ISBN:  9780748696956 Pages: 400 Price: U.K. £ 95
Hardback: ISBN:  9780748696949 Pages: 400 Price: U.K. £ 95


Abstract:

Exploring the roots of four keywords for our times: Europe, the citizen, the
individual, and the people

* The English keywords are shown to be European concepts with roots in French
and parallel traditions in German

* Places keywords into their historical context, and shows how the existing
Chinese words for people and person are transformed through contact with
concepts of European origin

* Establishes a complex model of political diversity for Europe’s cultures and
traditions

* Adopts a combination of critical and analytical methods and corpus-based
research

* Goes beyond a cold analysis of concepts to scrutinize the keywords that move
people and get them excited about individual rights, personal destinies and
the role of the people

With economic, political and cultural globalisation, our world is inseparable
from the fates of other nations and peoples. But how far can we trust English
to provide us with a reliable lingua franca to speak about our world? If our
keywords reflect our cultures and form parts of specific cultural and
historical narratives, they may well help trace the paths we take together
into the future. This book seeks the roots of four keywords for our times: the
people, the citizen, the individual, and Europe. By exploring these keywords
in English and understanding stories related to ‘equivalent keywords’ in
Chinese, German, French and Czech, this book helps us to understand how other
languages are adapting to English words, and how their worldviews resist
‘anglo-concepts’ through their own traditions, stories and worldviews.

Available in North America from our distribution partner, Oxford University
Press.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     Czech (ces)
                     English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     German (deu)


Written In: English  (eng)

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