Professor Catherine Travis, Head, School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics, invites you to the launch of ‘Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default Language’ by Anna Wierzbicka. The book launch will be immediately followed by a reception. All are welcome to attend. Copies of the book will be available from the Coop bookshop stand following the event.

The book will be launched by

Professor Joseph Lo Bianco
Chair of Languages and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne,
Immediate Past President of the Australian Academy of Humanities

Second speaker

Professor Michael Wesley
Director of the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, Australian National University

About the Book

Imprisoned in English argues that in the present English-dominated world, social sciences and the humanities are locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English and that most scholars in these fields are not aware of the need to break away from this framework to reach a more universal, culture-independent perspective on things human.
It is a book dedicated to one central idea: the blind spot in contemporary social sciences which results from the “invisibility” of English as an increasingly globalized way of thinking and talking

About the Author

Anna Wierzbicka is a Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University.

Kindly register your attendace via e-mail to admin.slll@anu.edu.au.