Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) Book

This work demonstrates that every language has its 'key concepts' (expressed in key words) and that these concepts reflect the core values of the culture in question. It shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared and explained to outsiders through their key concepts.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has key concepts, expressed in...

  • 0195088360
  • 9780195088366
  • Anna Wierzbicka
  • 6 November 1997
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 328
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