Book description
Global knowledge production increasingly happens through one particular language: modern Anglo English. What does the Anglocentric reliance of English words and phrases mean for the way we make claims, formulate research questions, and develop theories? In this monograph, these questions are scrutinized and explored through "Postcolonial Semantics", a new framework…
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This book places semantics, that is, the study of meaning, at the very core of linguistics, and it understands semantics not as the “semantics of languages” but as the “semantics of words and people.”
The people whose words this book particularly seeks to understand live in the South Pacific town of Vila in Vanuatu; the book is dedicated to them. The author shows that in order to understand the cultural and conceptual world reflected in the meanings that the people of Vila live with and draw on in their everyday discourse, these meanings need to be described through words that…
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