Overview
- Delineates meaningful and rigorous definitions of the concepts ‘Eastern Europe’ and ‘Central Europe’
- Analyses the term ‘Eastern Europe’ as a Western invention
- Goes beyond linguistics to discuss the political, historical, economic and cultural concepts that lie behind ‘Eastern Europe’
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Reviews
“The topic is important and interesting, the amount of the author’s work on Eastern and Central Europe is remarkable. Also, the intention to contribute to an understanding of political terminology by providing insights from linguistic semantics is commendable.” (Adam Głaz, Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 19 (5), 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Piotr Twardzisz is Associate Professor in the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research interests focus on specialist languages, figurative language, word-formation, lexicology and terminology, as well as international affairs. Piotr is author of Zero Derivation in English: A Cognitive Grammar Approach (1997), Patterns of English Word-Formation (2010), The Language of Interstate Relations: In Search of Personification (2013) and numerous articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Defining ‘Eastern Europe’
Book Subtitle: A Semantic Inquiry into Political Terminology
Authors: Piotr Twardzisz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77374-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77373-5Published: 07 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08442-4Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77374-2Published: 25 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 259
Topics: Semantics, Lexicology/Vocabulary, Cognitive Linguistics, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics