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Migrating Meanings

Sharing Keywords in a Global World

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Migrating Meanings

Sharing Keywords in a Global World

By: Underhill James W. Underhill

With economic, political and cultural globalisation, our world is inseparable from the fates of other nations and peoples. But how far can we trust English to provide us with a reliable lingua franca to speak about our world? If our keywords reflect our cultures and form parts of specific cultural and historical narratives, they may well help trace the paths we take together into the future. This book seeks the roots of four keywords for our times: the people, the citizen, the individual, and Europe. By exploring these keywords in English and understanding stories related to 'equivalent keywords' in Chinese, German, French and Czech, this book helps us to understand how other languages are adapting to English words, and how their worldviews resist 'anglo-concepts' through their own traditions, stories and worldviews.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474447376

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Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts

Truth, Love, Hate and War

By: James W. Underhill

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Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts

Truth, Love, Hate and War

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An original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as love and hate are expressed across cultures and ethnicities.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107010640

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Voice and Versification in Translating Poems

By: James W. Underhill

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Voice and Versification in Translating Poems

By: James W. Underhill

Great poets like Shelley and Goethe have made the claim that translating poems is impossible. And yet, poems are translated; not only that, but the metrical systems of English, French, Italian, German, Russian and Czech have been shaped by the translation of poems. Our poetic traditions are inspired by translations of Homer, Dante, Goethe and Baudelaire. How can we explain this paradox? James W. Underhill responds by offering an informed account of meter, rhythm, rhyme, and versification. But more than that, the author stresses that what is important in the poem—and what must be preserved in the translated poem—is the voice that emerges in the versification. Underhill’s book draws on the author’s translation experience from French, Czech and German. His comparative analysis of the versifications of French and English have enabled him to revise the key terms involved in translating the poetic voice and transposing the poem’s versification. The theories of versification from the Prague School of Linguistics, the French and Swiss schools of versification, and recent scholarship in metrics and rhythm in the UK and in the USA have been integrated into this synthetic but rigorously coherent approach to translating poems. The extensive glossary at the end of the book will prove useful for both students and teachers alike. And the detailed case studies on translating poems by Baudelaire and Emily Dickinson allow the author to categorize and appraise the various poetic and aesthetic strategies and theories that are brought to bear in translating Baudelaire into English, and Dickinson into French.

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University of Ottawa Press

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0776622781

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Creating Worldviews

By: James W Underhill

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Creating Worldviews

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Reflecting upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, Underhill analyses the discourse of several languages in recent history.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748688676

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9780748688678

Migrating Meanings

Sharing Keywords in a Global World

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0748696954

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Humboldt, Worldview and Language

By: James W. Underhill

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Humboldt, Worldview and Language

By: James W. Underhill

With the loss of many of the world's languages, it is important to question what will be lost to humanity with their demise. It is frequently argued that a language engenders a 'worldview', but what do we mean by this term? Attributed to German politician and philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), the term has since been adopted by numerous linguists. Within specialist circles it has become associated with what is known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which suggests that the nature of a language influences the thought of its speakers and that different language patterns yield different patterns of thought.Underhill's concise and rigorously researched book clarifies the main ideas and proposals of Humboldt's linguistic philosophy and demonstrates the way his ideas can be adopted and adapted by thinkers and linguists today. A detailed glossary of terms is provided in order to clarify key concepts and to translate the German terms used by Humboldt.

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0748640223

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Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts

Truth, Love, Hate and War

By: James W. Underhill

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Truth, Love, Hate and War

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An original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as love and hate are expressed across cultures and ethnicities.

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Sharing Keywords in a Global World

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Migrating Meanings

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Voice and Versification in Translating Poems

Voice and Versification in Translating Poems

Creating Worldviews

Creating Worldviews

Migrating Meanings

Migrating Meanings

Humboldt, Worldview and Language

Humboldt, Worldview and Language

Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts

Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts

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