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Experience, Evidence, and Sense - The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English (Paperback)
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Experience, Evidence, and Sense - The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English (Paperback)
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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 unpacks 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 also English
as a global language.
An interdisciplinary work, Experience, Evidence, and Sense will be
of interest to both scholars and students in linguistics and
English, as well as historians of ideas, sociologists,
anthropologists, literary scholars, and scholars of communication.
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