Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Release : 2010
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 010/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Experience, Evidence, and Sense by : Anna Wierzbicka
Download or read book Experience, Evidence, and Sense written by Anna Wierzbicka. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on a handful of English words whose meaning seems obvious to native speakers, and using a brand of semantic analysis accessible to any intelligent lay person, Anna Wierzbicka reveals the empiricist worldview embedded in the English lexicon and shows how mystify-ingly foreign English can thus be to foreigners. As an exploration in historical semantics, Wierzbicka's new book deserves a place beside Raymond Williams's Keywords."---J. M. Coetzee, University of Adelaide, Nobel Laureate in Literature --