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Chien, Jui-Pi. 2007. Umwelt, milieu(x), and environment: A survey of cross-cultural concept mutations. Semiotica 2007 (167) : 65–89.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

To explore the conditions in which the Umwelt, milieu, and environment concepts have crossed the borders, this paper presents a narrative for each word inferred from dictionary entries and articles in the semiotics encyclopedia, and connects these materials to four surveys by Spitzer, Canguilhem, Aarsleff, and Sutrop. Notwithstanding a word's loaded value within its national and disciplinary boundaries, the history of its travelling routes can uncover its conceptual equivalents hidden in other linguistic, scientific, and cultural constructs, that reach beyond the word equivalents defined in the dictionaries.