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Imprisoned in English
Anna Wierzbicka
其他書名
The Hazards of English as a Default Language
出版OUP USA, 2014
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralPhilosophy / LanguagePsychology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / Urban
ISBN01993215079780199321506
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sYFeAQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 most scholars in these fields are not aware of the need to break away from this framework to reach a more universal, culture-independent perspective on things human. Indeed they are typically not aware that any problem exists, and resistant to its being pointed out. The book engages with current debates across a range of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary science, psychology, and cognitive science, as well as linguistics. The topics include values, emotions, social cognition, intercultural communication, endangered languages, human universals vs. human diversity, the evolution of consciousness, etc. It is a book dedicated to one central idea: the blind spot in contemporary social sciences and the prevailing global discourse on values, the human condition, human relations, and so on, which results from the "invisibility" of English as an increasingly globalized way of thinking and talking.