Experience, evidence, and sense : the hidden cultural legacy of English / Anna Wierzbicka
- Bib ID:
- 4979562
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wierzbicka, Anna, 1938
- Description:
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010
- x, 460 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780195368000
- 9780195368017
- Full contents:
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- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Making the Familiar Look Foreign
- 1. Mere Words or Keys to a Cultural World?
- 2. The Cultural and Historical Baggage of English
- 3. The Legacy of "British Empiricism,"
- 4. The English Word Empirical and the French Word Empirical: A Closer Look
- 5. ̀Theory', ̀Common Sense', and the Reliability of the Senses
- 6. Natural Semantic Metalanguage as an Effective Methodology for Cultural Semantics
- Part II. Experience and Evidence
- 2. Experience: An English Keyword and a Key Cultural Theme
- 1. The Uniqueness of the English Concept of ̀Experience'
- 2. Experience as the Mother of Wisdom: Shakespeare's Sapiential Perspective
- 3. "A Frightening Experience": From a Retrospective to an Introspective Perspective
- 4. Sensory Experience as a Basis for Empirical Knowledge: A Lockean Perspective
- 5. The Verb to Experience: Evidence for the Semantic Shift
- 6. Experiences in Anglophone Philosophy: John Searle's Perspective
- 7. Experience in Religion: William James's Perspective
- 8. "Bearing Witness": Shared Experience in Anglophone Art and History
- 9. I Know from Experience
- 10. English Experience Compared with German Erfahrung and Erlebnis
- 11. Concluding Remarks: The History of Ideas and the Meaning of Words
- 3. Evidence: Words, Ideas, and Cultural Practices
- 1. Evidence as a Key Cultural Concept in Modern English
- 2. An Outline of the Semantic History of Evidence
- 3. Linguistic Evidence
- 4. The New Discourse of Evidence
- 5. Sources of the Modern Concepts of Evidence in Law, Theology, Philosophy, and Science
- 6. Concluding Remarks: Semantics, Culture, and Society
- Part III. Sense
- 4. The Discourse of Sense and the Legacy of "British Empiricism"
- 1. Sense, Senses, and Modern English Speechways
- 2. The Five Senses
- 3. The Verb to Sense
- 4. A Sense of What Is Happening
- 5. To Have a Sense That
- 6. There Is a Sense That
- 7. Give Us a Sense of
- 5. A Sense of Humor, a Sense of Self, and Similar Expressions
- 1. A Sense of Humor
- 2. A Sense of Self
- 3. A Sense of Freedom (Confidence, Achievement, Competence)
- 4. A Sense of Obligation (Duty, Responsibility, Urgency)
- 5. A Sense of History, a Sense of Time and Place, a Sense of Reality
- 6. A Sense of Joy
- 6. A Strong Sense, a Deep Sense, and Similar Expressions
- 1. A Strong Sense (of Something)
- 2. A Deep Sense (of Something)
- 3. A Sharp Sense (of Something)
- 4. A Good Sense (of Something)
- 5. A Great Sense (of Something)
- 6. A Real Sense (of Something)
- 7. A False Sense (of Something)
- 8. A Xeen Sense (of Something)
- 9. A Clear Sense (of Something)
- 10. An Acute Sense (of Something)
- 7. Moral Sense
- 1. Moral Sense: A Human Universal "or an Artifact of English?
- 2. A Brief History of the Concept of "Moral Sense"
- 3. Moral Sense in the Eighteenth Century and Now: A Comparison
- 4. A Sense of Right and Wrong in Present-Day English
- 5. Conclusion
- 8. Common Sense
- 1. The Importance of Common Sense in Anglo Culture
- 2. Common Sense in Law
- 3. The Uniqueness of English Common Sense (Common Sense vs. Bon Sens)
- 4. The Meaning of Common Sense in Contemporary English
- 5. Thomas Reid and the Origin of English Common Sense
- 6. Common Sense and the British Enlightenment
- 9. From Having Sense to Making Senses
- 1. Being Sensible
- 2. Having Sense
- 3. Making Sense
- Part IV. Phraseology, Semantics, and Corpus Linguistics
- 10. Investigating English Phraseology with Two Tools: NSM and Google
- 1. An Overview
- 2. Clear and Stable Contrasts
- 3. Stable and Overwhelmingly Sharp Contrasts
- 4. Figures, Proportions, and Patterns
- 5. Anomalies: How Significant Are They?
- 6. Monitoring the Proportions of Strong Sense to Deep Sense
- 7. Limitations of Google as a Tool for Exploring English Phraseology
- 8. Comparing the Results of Google and Yahoo Searches
- 9. Concluding Remarks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-430) and index.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Experience, evidence, & sense
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