Migrating Meanings

Sharing Keywords in a Global World

AvJames W. Underhill,Mariarosaria Gianninoto

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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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.</

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-02-16
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:606 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474481380

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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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The authors can be congratulated on their achievement of providing an in-depth cultural semantic analysis of four keywords across English and Chinese, with further comparisons being made with other major European languages. The authors successfully manage to bring together evidence from different textual sources and trace the semantic development of these terms throughout the modern history of ideas.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter One: The PeopleChapter Two: CitizenChapter Three: IndividualChapter Four: EuropeA Final WordGlossary, Selected Reading, Abbreviations, References, Corpora and Databases, Books & Articles