James W. Underhill (University of Rouen)

Broschiertes Buch

Humboldt, Worldview and Language

Beschreibung

This is a short academic introduction to the work of the German 19th-century philologist, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and with theories loosely referred to in connection with the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis.

Autor

James W. Underhill is a Professor at Rouen University, France. He has worked as a professional translator of both French and Czech and has published articles on poetics, metaphor and translation. He is the author of Creating Worldviews: Ideology, Metaphor and Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) and Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts: Truth, Love, Hate and War (Cambridge University Press, 2012). The Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project (REP) was founded by James W. Underhill in the framework of the ERIAC RESEARCH GROUP at the University of Rouen, in Northern France. REP aims to further investigations into the philosophy of language and explorations of worldviews. You can find out more about the project here: Rouen Ethnolinguistics Project

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9780748668793
• ISBN-10: 0748668799
• Artikelnr.: 36839484