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By Anna Wierzbicka

ISBN-10: 0199321493

ISBN-13: 9780199321490

ISBN-10: 0199321507

ISBN-13: 9780199321506

In Imprisoned in English, Anna Wierzbicka argues that during the current English-dominated international, thousands of individuals - together with teachers, legal professionals, diplomats, and writers - can turn into "prisoners of English", not able to imagine outdoor English. specifically, social sciences and the arts are actually more and more locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English. To such a lot students in those fields, treating English as a default language turns out a common factor to do.

The book's procedure is interdisciplinary, and its subject matters diversity over parts of valuable curiosity to anthropology, psychology, and sociology, between others. The linguistic fabric is drawn from languages of the United States, Australia, the Pacific, South-East Asia and Europe. Wierzbicka argues that it's time for human sciences to use English as an international lingua franca whereas while transcending the constraints of the historically-shaped conceptual vocabulary of English. and she or he exhibits how this is done.

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