... described using English words (“all people experience anger, sadness, and so forth, regardless of what they call it”), while denying the same privilege to the words of other languages, is simply Anglocentric (and hence unscientific). It is true that with the decline of Chomskyan hegemony towards the end...

... to capture subtleties of meaning with precision, while avoiding the danger of conceptual Anglocentrism creeping into the description. The chapter demonstrates how the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach deals with this challenge. I am grateful to Anna Wierzbicka...

... of simple and universal human concepts can liberate us from the pervasive Anglocentrism entrenched in the language of contemporary science. It allows us to take a fresh look at the human condition, unencumbered by conceptual intrusions derived from modern English and especially from the technical English...

... Columbia Washington D C Noah Webster Anglocentrism Henry Adams Gordon S. Wood When Noah Webster presented the first-ever American-authored dictionary of the English language to the reading public in 1806, thirty years had passed since America had declared independence from Great Britain. In those...

... one needs a suitable metalanguage. Ordinary English cannot serve this purpose: to try to articulate indigenous meanings in ordinary “full-blown” English, drawing freely on those layers of English vocabulary which are culture-specific, means to fall into the same trap of Anglocentrism that the Berlin...

... across cultures without bias. Christianity Islam Judaism languages Anglocentrism Buddhism Eurocentrism Hinduism Tao analogy and analogical interpretation Australian Aboriginal religions and culture belief Natural Semantic Metalanguage NSM symbol atheism Basic Human conceptual language...

... empirical cross-linguistic semantics Anglocentrism Eurocentrism NSM approach language universal universal human concept alphabet of human thoughts canonical frame cultural knowledge experiential knowledge In their article “Gettier Across Cultures,” Machery et al. (2015, 1–2) note that “for much...

... ways need to be found of approaching wartime art and literature in marginalized regions of Britain, and in Northern Ireland, where cultural Anglocentrism has had its own repercussions. Introducing Irish Poetry of the 1930s (2005), Alan Gillis argues that Irish literary criticism’s...