Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese by Anna Wierzbicka

Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese

Anna Wierzbicka

328 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 "k...

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