About this title: To what extent are languages 'essentially the same'? Is every word in our language translatable into every other language or are some of our words and concepts 'culture specific'? In this innovative study, Wierzbicka ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures, attempting to identify concepts which are truly universal, while at the same time arguing that every language constitutes a different 'guide to reality'. The lexicons of different languages, she shows, do indeed suggest different conceptual universes. Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another, ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780195073263ISBN:0195073266
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OUP USA
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780195073263ISBN:0195073266
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780195073263ISBN:0195073266
Description: New. This study ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures in an attempt to identify concepts which are truly universal and to explore whether certain words are culture-specific. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780195073263ISBN:0195073266
Description: New. Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects a... read more
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