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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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Imprisoned in English : the hazards of English as a default language, Anna Wierzbicka
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- Released
- 2014
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Imprisoned in English : the hazards of English as a default language
- Language
- Czech, English
- Authors
- Anna Wierzbicka
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0199321507
- ISBN13
- 9780199321506
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Textbooks, Language Textbooks & Dictionaries, Languages, Language Textbooks
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- 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.