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" Experience, evidence, and sense : "
Anna Wierzbicka.
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BL
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873604
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Wierzbicka, Anna.
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Experience, evidence, and sense : : the hidden cultural legacy of English /\ Anna Wierzbicka.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2010.
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x, 460 pages ;; 24 cm
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0195368002
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: 0195368010
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: 9780195368000
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: 9780195368017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-430) and index.
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| Contents
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pt. 1. Introduction -- Making the familiar look foreign -- pt. 2. Experience and evidence -- Experience : an English keyword and a key cultural theme -- Evidence : words, ideas, and cultural practices -- pt. 3. Sense -- The discourse of sense and the legacy of "British empiricism" -- A sense of humor, a sense of self, and similar expressions -- A strong sense, a deep sense, and similar expressions -- Moral sense -- Common sense -- From having sense to making sense -- pt. 4. Phraseology, semantics and corpus linguistics -- Investigating English phraseology with two tools : NSM and Google.
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An interdisciplinary work, Experience, Evidence, and Sense is accessible 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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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; 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-experience, evidence, 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 other global varieties of English.
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English language-- Semantics.
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English language-- Social aspects.
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Language and languages-- Philosophy.
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Engelska språket.
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English language-- Semantics.
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English language-- Social aspects.
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Language and languages-- Philosophy.
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Englisch.
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evidence (Wort)
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evidence (Wort)
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experience.
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experience.
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Kulturerbe.
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Kulturerbe.
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Schlüsselwort.
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Schlüsselwort.
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sense (Wort)
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sense (Wort)
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Sprachphilosophie.
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Sprachphilosophie.
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Substantiv.
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Substantiv.
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Englisch.
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| Dewey Classification
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420.1/43
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PE1585.W54 2010
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HE 110rvk
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HF 400rvk
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HF 421rvk
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| Parallel Title
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Experience, evidence, & sense
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