Postcolonial Semantics

English has become central to global knowledge production. But what does the reliance of English mean for the world? The monograph challenges the monopoly of English as metalanguage and proposes instead a "Postcolonial Semantics". Through original semantic work on urban Pacific words and meanings, t...

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Glavni autor: Levisen, Carsten
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description English has become central to global knowledge production. But what does the reliance of English mean for the world? The monograph challenges the monopoly of English as metalanguage and proposes instead a "Postcolonial Semantics". Through original semantic work on urban Pacific words and meanings, this framework takes a critical cultural semantic look at key themes in the fields of language, communication, sociology, psychology and geopolitics.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1389682025-07-18T09:46:13Z Postcolonial Semantics Levisen, Carsten cultural semantics cognitive semantics postcolonial linguistics discourse studies thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics English has become central to global knowledge production. But what does the reliance of English mean for the world? The monograph challenges the monopoly of English as metalanguage and proposes instead a "Postcolonial Semantics". Through original semantic work on urban Pacific words and meanings, this framework takes a critical cultural semantic look at key themes in the fields of language, communication, sociology, psychology and geopolitics. 2024-06-26T04:14:57Z 2024-06-26T04:14:57Z 2024-06-25T15:03:38Z 2024 book ONIX_20240625_9783111337432_31 2747-4089 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91045 9783111337432 9783111336909 9783111338002 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/138968 eng Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/91045/1/9783111337432.pdf De Gruyter De Gruyter 10.1515/9783111337432 10.1515/9783111337432 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 9783111337432 9783111336909 9783111338002 De Gruyter 264 Berlin/Boston open access
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Levisen, Carsten
Postcolonial Semantics
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postcolonial linguistics
discourse studies
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