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Experience, evidence, and sense : the hidden cultural legacy of English /

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In this volume, Anna Wierzbicka demonstrates that three uniquely English words - evidence, experience, and sense - are 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 trace...

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Main Author: Wierzbicka, Anna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
English language > Semantics.
English language > Social aspects.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
Linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES.
Historical & Comparative.
Translating & Interpreting.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
English language > Semantics
English language > Social aspects
Language and languages > Philosophy
Kulturerbe
Schlüsselwort
Sprachphilosophie
Substantiv
evidence > Wort
experience
sense > Wort
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:In this volume, Anna Wierzbicka demonstrates that three uniquely English words - evidence, experience, and sense - are 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 460 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199867653
0199867658
9780195368000
0195368002
9780199709809
0199709807