Migrating Meanings: Sharing Keywords in a Global World by Underhill, James W.

Migrating Meanings: Sharing Keywords in a Global World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780748696949)

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Format: Hardcover
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Migrating Meanings: Sharing Keywords in a Global World by Underhill, James W.

Migrating Meanings: Sharing Keywords in a Global World

$160.00
Migrating Meanings: Sharing Keywords in a Global World by Underhill, James W.

Migrating Meanings: Sharing Keywords in a Global World

$160.00
Format: Hardcover
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With economic, political and cultural globalisation, our world is inseparable from the fates of other nations and peoples. But how far can we trust English to provide us with a reliable lingua franca to speak about our world? If our keywords reflect our cultures and form parts of specific cultural and historical narratives, they may well help trace the paths we take together into the future. This book seeks the roots of four keywords for our times: the people, the citizen, the individual, and Europe. By exploring these keywords in English and understanding stories related to 'equivalent keywords' in Chinese, German, French and Czech, this book helps us to understand how other languages are adapting to English words, and how their worldviews resist 'anglo-concepts' through their own traditions, stories and worldviews.

Author: James W. Underhill,Mariarosaria Gianninoto
ISBN-10: 0748696946
ISBN-13: 9780748696949
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2019
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d

By James W. Underhill
By James W. Underhill
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James W. Underhill is a Professor at Rouen University, France. He has worked as a professional translator of both French and Czech and has published articles on poetics, metaphor and translation. He is the author of Creating Worldviews: Ideology, Metaphor and Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) and Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts: Truth, Love, Hate and War (Cambridge University Press, 2012). The Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project (REP) was founded by James W. Underhill in the framework of the ERIAC RESEARCH GROUP at the University of Rouen, in Northern France. REP aims to further investigations into the philosophy of language and explorations of worldviews. You can find out more about the project here: Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project

Mariarosaria Gianninoto is Associate Professor of Chinese at the Université Grenoble Alpes.

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