Imprisoned in English by Anna Wierzbicka

Imprisoned in English by Anna Wierzbicka

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 scholars need to break away from this framework to reach a more universal, culture-independent perspective on things human.

Imprisoned in English is an heroic attempt to truly understand 'others' as subjects rather than objects without assimilating their understandings to one's ownThe book summarizes the author's influential and monumental plan for a great escape from ethnocentrism and conceptual parochialism in the humanities and social sciences. * Richard A. Shweder, Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago *
This book is the latest outstanding product of Anna Wierzbicka's research, driven by her cross-cultural approach and theory of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM). Wierzbicka is excellent in showing how much we are imprisoned in culture-specific English concepts. The book is powerful, and recommended for everyone who is interested in languages. * Istvan Kecskes, founding editor of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics *

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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ISBN 13	9780199321506
ISBN 10	0199321507
Title	Imprisoned in English
Author	Anna Wierzbicka
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2013-12-12
Number of pages	304
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