Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default Language

In Imprisoned in English, Anna Wierzbicka argues that in the present English-dominated world, millions of people -...
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Author: Anna Wierzbicka
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Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default Language by Wierzbicka, Anna

Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default Language

€90,94

Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default Language

€90,94
Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.


Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/06/2013
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780199321506


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2014 pg. 251

About the Author

Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University, and author of Semantics, Culture, and Cognition (1992); Semantics: Primes and Universals (1996): Understanding Cultures Through their Keywords (1997); What did Jesus Mean? (2001), and English: Meaning and Culture (2006)



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