Migrating Meanings

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.

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.

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