Imprisoned in English : the hazards of English as a default language /

This title argues that in the present English-dominated world social sciences and the humanities are locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English and that scholars need to break away from this framework to reach a more universal culture-independent perspective on things human.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wierzbicka, Anna (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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