Télécharger le livre :  The Nicene Creed in Minimal English

This book offers an unpacked version of the Nicene Creed, which is the defining statement of belief of mainstream Christianity, and a milestone in human history. The book seeks to clarify this compressed text through the common conceptual language of all...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-26

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Télécharger le livre :  What Christians Believe

Many people today, both Christians and non-Christians, are confused about or unaware of the essentials of Christian faith. In this book, Anna Wierzbicka takes a radically new approach to the task of communicating "what Christians believe" to the widest possible...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2019-02-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Words and Meanings

In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. They focus on complex and culturally important...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-11-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Imprisoned in English

In Imprisoned in English, Anna Wierzbicka argues that in the present English-dominated world, millions of people - including academics, lawyers, diplomats, and writers - can become "prisoners of English", unable to think outside English.In particular, social sciences...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-11-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Experience, Evidence, and Sense

This book is based on two ideas: first, that any language--English no less than any other-represents a universe of meaning, shaped by the history and experience of the men and women who have created it, and second, that in any language certain culture--specific words...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-06-24

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Télécharger le livre :  English


Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2006-04-27

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Télécharger le livre :  What did Jesus Mean?

In this highly interdisciplinary work, linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts new light on the words of Jesus by taking her well-known semantic theory of "universal human concepts"- concepts which are intuitively understandable and self-explanatory across languages-and bringing...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2001-04-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words

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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1997-08-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words

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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1997-08-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Semantics, Culture, and Cognition

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 analytical tools...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1992-10-22

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