Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon

by Carol Gluck

Book Overview

On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously tracking specific words in specific settings frequently...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822345366
• ISBN13: 9780822345367
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"