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.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Recognizing the contingency of one's own language
- Naming the world or construing the world?
- The givens of human life
- Universal words, semantic atoms and semantic molecules
- Human bodies and human minds: what is visible and what is invisible
- Anglo values vs. human values: talking about values in a global world
- Human emotions and English words: are anger and disgust universal?
- Taking to other people: politeness and cultural scripts
- Doing things with other people: cooperation, interaction and obščenie
- Grammar and social cognition: the Hawaiians, the Dalabons, and the Anglos
- Thinking about things in Yucatec and in English
- Endangered languages, endangered meanings
- Chimpanzees and the evolution of human cognition
- From ordinary (Anglo) English to Minimal English
- Anthropology, psychology, psychiatry
- Philosophy, theology, politics
- Linguistics: cognitive and cultural approaches
- Bilingualism, life writing, translation.