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Imprisoned in English - The Hazards of English as a Default Language (Paperback)
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Imprisoned in English - The Hazards of English as a Default Language (Paperback)
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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 most scholars in
these fields are not aware of the need to break away from this
framework to reach a more universal, culture-independent
perspective on things human. Indeed they are typically not aware
that any problem exists, and resistant to its being pointed out.
The book engages with current debates across a range of
disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology,
evolutionary science, psychology, and cognitive science, as well as
linguistics. The topics include values, emotions, social cognition,
intercultural communication, endangered languages, human universals
vs. human diversity, the evolution of consciousness, etc. It is a
book dedicated to one central idea: the blind spot in contemporary
social sciences and the prevailing global discourse on values, the
human condition, human relations, and so on, which results from the
"invisibility " of English as an increasingly globalized way of
thinking and talking.
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