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English: Meaning and Culture.

Publication: Yearbook of English Studies
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: English: Meaning and Culture.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
English: Meaning and Culture. By Anna Wierzbicka. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. ix + 352 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 978-0-19-517475-5.

Anna Wierzbicka's new book is a thoughtful, thought-provoking, and often illuminating work on the distinctive cultural patterning of meaning and grammar within English. If the central ideas of a cultural script within language have previously been productively explored for languages such as Japanese, this is a territory which, as Wierzbicka observes, has often been marginalized in modern linguistic analysis of 'Anglo' English. Yet, as...

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