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Publication details [#28083]

Haarmann, Harald. 1990. Language in its cultural embedding: Explorations in the relativity of signs and sign systems. De Gruyter Mouton. xiv + 276 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

body part terminology | borrowing | language and culture | sign

Language as a subject

Arabic | English

Annotation

In this book, H. rejects the assumption of a 'pre-cultural' sector in natural language vocabulary and argues that borrowings of 'basic' vocabulary are a relatively common phenomenon in language contact processes.

Reviewed by

Kaye, Alan S. 1995. Review of $Language in its cultural embedding: Explorations in the relativity of signs and sign systems.