By Anna Wierzbicka
The book's procedure is interdisciplinary, and its subject matters diversity over components of relevant curiosity to anthropology, psychology, and sociology, between others. The linguistic fabric is drawn from languages of the USA, 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 indicates how this is done.
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