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Underhill, James W.; Gianninoto, Mariarosaria

 
9781474481380: Migrating Meanings: Sharing Keywords in a Global World
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ISBN 10 : 1474481388 ISBN 13 : 9781474481380
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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À propos des auteurs

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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Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1474481388
ISBN 13 
9781474481380
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780748696949: Migrating Meanings: Sharing Keywords in a Global World

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ISBN 10 :  0748696946 ISBN 13 :  9780748696949
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2019
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