Title: Words in motion : toward a global lexicon /
Authors: Gluck, Carol, 1941-; Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt.
Publisher: Duke University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Language and languages Political aspects; Language and culture Political aspects.; Intercultural communication.; Globalization.
Abstract: "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 leads in unexpected directions and alters conventional depictions of global modernity."--Jacket.