It takes the average reader 8 hours and 20 minutes to read Semantics, Culture, and Cognition by Anna Wierzbicka
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To what extent are languages 'essentially the same'? Is every word in our language translatable into every other language or are some of our words and concepts 'culture specific'? In this innovative study, Wierzbicka ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures, attempting to identify concepts which are truly universal, while at the same time arguing that every language constitutes a different 'guide to reality'. The lexicons of different languages, she shows, do indeed suggest different conceptual universes. Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another,...
Semantics, Culture, and Cognition by Anna Wierzbicka is 487 pages long, and a total of 125,159 words.
This makes it 164% the length of the average book. It also has 153% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 23 minutes to read Semantics, Culture, and Cognition aloud.
Semantics, Culture, and Cognition is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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