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Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese

Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese

Name: Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Anna Wierzbicka
ISBN: 9780195088366

Anna Wierzbicka

01/01/1997
Oxford University Press Usa

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese par Anna Wierzbicka

Résumé

Wierzbicka demonstrates that every language has its "key concepts" (expressed in key words) and that these concepts reflect the core values of the culture in question. Examining empirical evidence from five languages, and using her own "natural semantic metalanguage" to provide an analytical framework, she shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared, and explained to outsiders through their key concepts.