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Postcolonial Semantics Meaning and Metalanguage in a Multipolar World

Av: Medverkande: Materialtyp: ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter De Gruyter [Imprint] 2024Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (264 p.)Innehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • computer
Bärartyp:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783111336909
  • 9783111337432
  • 9783111338002
Ämnen: Onlineresurser: Sammanfattning: 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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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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