Words in Motion - 9780822345367
Un libro in lingua di Gluck Carol (EDT) Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt (EDT) edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2009
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Such words as security in Brazil, responsibility in Japan, community in Thailand, and hijab in France changed the societies in which they moved even as the words were changed by them. Some words threatened to launch wars, as injury did in imperial Britain's relations with China in the nineteenth century. Others, such as secularism, worked in silence to agitate for political change in twentieth-century Morocco. Words imposed or imported from abroad could be transformed by those who wielded them to oppose the very powers that first introduced them, as happened in Turkey, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Taken together, this selection of fourteen essays reveals commonality as well as distinctiveness across modern societies, making the world look different from the interdisciplinary and transnational perspective of “words in motion.”
Contributors. Mona Abaza, Itty Abraham, Partha Chatterjee, Carol Gluck, Huri Islamoglu, Claudia Koonz, Lydia H. Liu, Driss Maghraoui, Vicente L. Rafael, Craig J. Reynolds, Seteney Shami, Alan Tansman, Kasian Tejapira, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Words in Motion
- Sottotitolo: Toward a Global Lexicon
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Gluck Carol (EDT) Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt (EDT)
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Novembre '09
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Language and languages Political aspects Language and culture Political aspects Intercultural communication
- Pagine: 346
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0822345366
- EAN-13: 9780822345367