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

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 | #496984 in Books |  Anna Wierzbicka |  1997-08-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  6.30 x.90 x9.20l,1.12 | File type: PDF | 328 pages

 | Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words English Russian Polish German and Japanese Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics

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||0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Perhaps the book would have been better if focused on a single culture|By Sunshine|Perhaps the book would have been better if focused on a single culture. As it is, the analysis of so few words leads to plausible conclusions, but not probable conclusions. Overall I thought it was fine until I showed the book to a Russian native and she told me the word use and translation was

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 "key words," which reflect the core values of a given culture. She shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared, and explained to outsiders through their key concepts, and that the analytical framework necessary for th...

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