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

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.
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by Wierzbicka, Anna
Published 2010

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