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Published by Oxford University Press, 2013
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- Title
- Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default Language
- Author
- Wierzbicka, Anna
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0199321507
- ISBN 13
- 9780199321506
Imprisoned in English 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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About the Author
Professor of Linguistics, Australian National University, and author of Semantics, Culture, and Cognition (1992); Semantics: Primes and Universals (1996): Understanding Cultures Through their Keywords (1997); What did Jesus Mean? (2001), and English: Meaning and Culture (2006)
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