Download or read book Experience, Evidence, and Sense written by Anna Wierzbicka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on a handful of English words whose meaning seems obvious to native speakers, and using a brand of semantic analysis accessible to any intelligent lay person, Anna Wierzbicka reveals the empiricist worldview embedded in the English lexicon and shows how mystify-ingly foreign English can thus be to foreigners. As an exploration in historical semantics, Wierzbicka's new book deserves a place beside Raymond Williams's Keywords."---J. M. Coetzee, University of Adelaide, Nobel Laureate in Literature --