Words in motion : toward a global lexicon
Texte imprimé
- Auteurs : Gluck Carol (1941-....) ; Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt ;
- Editeurs : Durham Duke University Press ;
- Date d'édition : Cop. 2009
- ISBN : 978-0-8223-4519-0, 0-8223-4519-6, 978-0-8223-4536-7, 0-8223-4536-6
- Sujets : Langage et langues -- Aspect politique, Langage et culture, Communication interculturelle, Mondialisation
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (346 p.), : Ill., couv. ill. en coul., 25 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
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Résumé
'On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously tracking specific words in specific settings frequently leads in unexpected directions and alters conventional depictions of global modernity.'--BOOK JACKET