Migrating meanings :: sharing keywords in a global world : 'Europe, the citizen, the individual, the people' /

With economic, political and cultural globalisation, our world is inseparable from the fates of other nations and peoples. But how far can we trust English to provide us with a reliable lingua franca to speak about our world? If our keywords reflect our cultures and form parts of specific cultural a...

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Hauptverfasser: Underhill, James W. (James William) (VerfasserIn), Gianninoto, Mariarosaria (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:With economic, political and cultural globalisation, our world is inseparable from the fates of other nations and peoples. But how far can we trust English to provide us with a reliable lingua franca to speak about our world? If our keywords reflect our cultures and form parts of specific cultural and historical narratives, they may well help trace the paths we take together into the future. This book seeks the roots of four keywords for our times: the people, the citizen, the individual, and Europe. By exploring these keywords in English and understanding stories related to 'equivalent keywords' in Chinese, German, French and Czech, this book helps us to understand how other languages are adapting to English words, and how their worldviews resist 'anglo-concepts' through their own traditions, stories and worldviews.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 391 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780748696956
0748696954
9781474460170
1474460178
9781474447379
1474447376

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