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This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and
comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved
and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new
knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptual move:
challenging both the premise of insurmountable differences between
confined, autarkic cultures and the linear, nation-centered
approach to the spread of immutable stocks of knowledge. Rather,
the conceptual focus of the book is on the circulation,
amalgamation and reconfiguration of locally shaped bodies of
knowledge on a broader, global scale. The authors emphasize that
the histories of interaction have been made less transparent
through the study of cultural representations thus distorting the
view of how knowledge is actually produced. Leading scholars from a
range of fields, including history, philosophy, social anthropology
and comparative culture research, have contributed chapters which
cover the period from the early modern age to the present day and
investigate settings in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Their particular
focus is on areas that have largely been neglected until now. In
this work, readers from many disciplines will find new approaches
to writing the global history of knowledge-making, especially
historians, scholars of the history and philosophy of science, and
those in culture studies.
This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a critical and
comprehensive understanding of how knowledge has been made, moved
and used, by whom and for what purpose. To explain how new
knowledge emerges, this volume offers a two-fold conceptual move:
challenging both the premise of insurmountable differences between
confined, autarkic cultures and the linear, nation-centered
approach to the spread of immutable stocks of knowledge. Rather,
the conceptual focus of the book is on the circulation,
amalgamation and reconfiguration of locally shaped bodies of
knowledge on a broader, global scale. The authors emphasize that
the histories of interaction have been made less transparent
through the study of cultural representations thus distorting the
view of how knowledge is actually produced. Leading scholars from a
range of fields, including history, philosophy, social anthropology
and comparative culture research, have contributed chapters which
cover the period from the early modern age to the present day and
investigate settings in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Their particular
focus is on areas that have largely been neglected until now. In
this work, readers from many disciplines will find new approaches
to writing the global history of knowledge-making, especially
historians, scholars of the history and philosophy of science, and
those in culture studies.
This book is concerned with one of the most fundamental issues in
English as a lingua franca (ELF) theory and use: the friction
between lexicogrammatical correctness and communicative
effectiveness. Critically reconsidering traditional frameworks of
error analysis, the book provides reflections on the paradigm shift
currently under way in non-native language research. Rather than
adherence to externally-defined norms, the main priorities in ELF
are argued to be mutual intelligibility between speakers and
appropriateness to context. The investigation of potential
communicative resources within the speakers' repertoires is
illustrated with many examples from authentic spoken ELF
interactions. Looking into the particular forms and processes at
work in ELF talk, the book explores possible constellations of
correctness and effectiveness. The relationship between these two
traditional concepts is found to be anything but straightforward in
the recently emerging lingua franca contexts, which has crucial
implications for future approaches to ELF in use.
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