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Janicki, Karol. 1999. Against essentialism. Toward language awareness. LINCOM Europa. VI+253 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

The main goals of this volume are to criticize essentialist, social-scientific insistence on providing definitions of all concepts -even those that in reality cannot be defined- and to propose language awareness as a solution for the problems caused by the uncritical acceptance of essentialist ideology and philosophy. The eight dialogues in this volume mainly explore key aspects of language use and its consequences for communication and interpersonal relations.

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