Experience, Evidence, and Sense
The Hidden Cultural Legacy of English
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 June 2010
- ISBN 9780195368000
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages472 pages
- Size 155x239x35 mm
- Weight 808 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
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 unpackages 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 other global varieties of English.
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.
All in all, the book is a thought-provoking contribution to the history of ideas. It is to be hoped that it will inspire rigorous work in several lines of research.
Table of Contents:
PART I. INTRODUCTION
Making the familiar look foreign
PART II. EXPERIENCE AND EVIDENCE
Experience: an English key word and cultural theme
Evidence: words, ideas, and cultural practices
PART III. 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
PART IV. PHRASEOLOGY, SEMANTICS AND CORPUS LINGUISTICS
Investigating English phraseology with two tools: NSM and Google
Notes
References
Appendix
Index
