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Part I | Meaning, History and Culture | |
1 | English as a Cultural Universe | 3 |
1.1 | English-the most widely used language in the world | 3 |
1.2 | English and Englishes | 5 |
1.3 | An illustration: Words, scripts, and human lives | 7 |
1.4 | "Anglo English" as a historical formation | 9 |
1.5 | The tendency to mistake "Anglo English" for the human norm | 11 |
1.6 | The cultural underpinnings of (Anglo) English | 13 |
1.7 | A framework for studying and describing meaning | 16 |
2 | Anglo Cultural Scripts Seen through Middle Eastern Eyes | 20 |
2.1 | Linguistics and intercultural cCommunication | 20 |
2.2 | The theory of cultural scripts | 22 |
2.3 | The Anglo ideal of "accuracy" and the practice of "understatement" | 25 |
2.4 | "To the best of my knowledge..." | 35 |
2.5 | Anglo respect for "facts" | 41 |
2.6 | "Cool reason": to think vs. to feel | 46 |
2.7 | To compel or not to compel? The value of autonomy | 50 |
2.8 | Conclusion | 56 |
Part II | English Words: From Philosophy to Everyday Discourse | |
3 | The Story of Right and Wrong and Its Cultural Implications | 61 |
3.1 | Introduction | 61 |
3.2 | "Right" and "wrong": A basis for ethics? | 64 |
3.3 | The link between "right" and "reason" | 70 |
3.4 | "That's right" | 74 |
3.5 | An illustration: English vs. Italian | 76 |
3.6 | "Right" as a neutral ground between "good" and "true" | 78 |
3.7 | Procedural morality | 80 |
3.8 | "Right" and "wrong": Increasingly asymmetrical | 82 |
3.9 | The changing frequencies of true, truth, right, and wrong | 85 |
3.10 | "Right" as a response in dialogue | 87 |
3.11 | "Right" and cultural scripts | 92 |
3.12 | Retrospect and conclusion: The Puritans, the Enlightenment, the growth of democracy | 95 |
4 | Being Reasonable: A Key Anglo Value and Its Cultural Roots | 103 |
4.1 | Introduction | 103 |
4.2 | The pre-Enlightenment uses of "reasonable" | 104 |
4.3 | The main themes in the modern meanings of the word reasonable | 105 |
4.4 | "A reasonable man" | 107 |
4.5 | "It is reasonable to" think (say, do) ... | 112 |
4.6 | "Reasonable doubt" | 117 |
4.7 | "Reasonable force" and "reasonable care" | 123 |
4.8 | "A reasonable time," "A reasonable amount" | 125 |
4.9 | "Reasonable" as "reasonably good" | 127 |
4.10 | "Reasonable" and "unreasonable" | 128 |
4.11 | An internal reconstruction of the semantic history of "reasonable" | 133 |
4.12 | "Reasonable" and Anglo cultural scripts | 135 |
4.13 | Is the Anglo value of "reasonable" unique? English vs. French | 138 |
5 | Being Fair: Another Key Anglo Value and Its Cultural Underpinnings | 141 |
5.1 | The importance of "fairness" in modern Anglo culture | 141 |
5.2 | The meaning of fair and not fair | 144 |
5.3 | "Fairness" and Anglo political philosophy | 152 |
5.4 | "Fairness" vs. "justice" | 155 |
5.5 | The illusion of universality | 160 |
5.6 | "Fairness" and "fair play": A historical perspective | 163 |
5.7 | "Fairness" and "procedural morality" | 165 |
Part III | Anglo Culture Reflected in English Grammar | |
6 | The English Causatives: Causation and Interpersonal Relations | 171 |
6.1 | The cultural elaboration of causation | 171 |
6.2 | The English "let"-constructions and the cultural ideal of "noninterference" | 183 |
7 | I Think: The Rise of Epistemic Phrases in Modern English | 204 |
7.1 | Introduction | 204 |
7.2 | I think | 208 |
7.3 | I suppose | 208 |
7.4 | I guess | 209 |
7.5 | I gather | 210 |
7.6 | I presume | 212 |
7.7 | I believe | 213 |
7.8 | I find | 220 |
7.9 | I expect | 226 |
7.10 | I take It | 230 |
7.11 | I understand | 233 |
7.12 | I imagine | 235 |
7.13 | I bet | 236 |
7.14 | I suspect | 237 |
7.15 | I assume | 239 |
7.16 | Conclusion | 241 |
8 | Probably: English Epistemic Adverbs and Their Cultural Significance | 247 |
8.1 | Introduction | 247 |
8.2 | Developing a format for the semantic analysis of epistemic adverbs | 257 |
8.3 | "Probably" and "likely": The heart of the category of epistemic adverbs | 261 |
8.4 | "Confident" adverbs: Evidently, clearly, obviously | 270 |
8.5 | "Nonconfident" adverbs: Possibly and conceivably | 276 |
8.6 | Hearsay adverbs: Apparently, supposedly, allegedly, and reportedly | 278 |
8.7 | The "uncertain" status of certainly | 284 |
8.8 | Epistemic adverbs vs. discourse particles | 287 |
8.9 | The history of epistemic adverbs in modern english | 291 |
Part IV | Conclusion | |
9 | The "Cultural Baggage" of English and Its Significance in the World at Large | 299 |
9.1 | The legacy of history | 299 |
9.2 | Living with concepts | 300 |
9.3 | Two illustrations: International law and international aviation | 301 |
9.4 | Communication and "vibes" | 305 |
9.5 | Intercultural communication and cross-cultural education | 308 |
9.6 | English in the world today | 310 |
Notes | 315 | |
References | 325 | |
Index | 341 |
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