Table of Contents
Part I Introduction
1 Making the Familiar Look Foreign 3
1 Mere Words or Keys to a Cultural World? 3
2 The Cultural and Historical Baggage of English 4
3 The Legacy of "British Empiricism," 6
4 The English Word Empirical and the French Word Empirique: A Closer Look 11
5 'Theory', 'Common Sense', and the Reliability of the Sense 13
6 Natural Semantic Metalanguage as an Effective Methodology for Cultural Semantics 16
Part II Experience and Evidence
2 Experience: An English Keyword and a Key Cultural Theme 25
1 The Uniqueness of the English Concept of 'Experience' 25
2 Experience as the Mother of Wisdom: Shakespeare's Sapiential Perspective 34
3 "A Frightening Experience": From a Retrospective to an Introspective Perspective 38
4 Sensory Experience as a Basis for Empirical Knowledge: A Lockean Perspective 44
5 The Verb to Experience: Evidence for the Semantic Shift 54
6 Experiences in Anglophone Philosophy: John Searle's Perspective 58
7 Experience in Religion: William James's Perspective 65
8 "Bearing Witness": Shared Experience in Anglophone Art and History 74
9 I Know from Experience ... 78
10 English Experience Compared with German Erfahrung and Erlebnis 83
11 Concluding Remarks: The History of Ideas and the Meaning of Words 90
3 Evidence: Words, Ideas, and Cultural Practices 94
1 Evidence as a Key Cultural Concept in Modern English 94
2 An Outline of the Semantic History of Evidence 100
3 Linguistic Evidence 119
4 The New Discourse of Evidence 122
5 Sources of the Modern Concepts of Evidence in Law, Theology, Philosophy, and Science 131
6 Concluding Remarks: Semantics, Culture, and Society 144
Part III Sense
4 The Discourse of Sense and the Legacy of "British Empiricism," 151
1 Sense, Senses, and Modern English Speechways 151
2 The Five Senses 155
3 The Verb to Sense 159
4 A Sense of What Is Happening 162
5 To Have a Sense That ... 169
6 There is a Sense that ... 176
7 Give us a Sense of ... 178
5 A Sense of Humor, a Sense of Self, and Similar Expressions 184
1 A Sense of Humor 184
2 A Sense of Self 192
3 A Sense of Freedom (Confidence, Achievement, Competence) 198
4 A Sense of Obligation (Duty, Responsibility, Urgency) 202
5 A Sense of History, a Sense of Time and Place, a Sense of Reality 204
6 A Sense of Joy 209
6 A Strong Sense, a Deep Sense, and Similar Expressions 212
1 A Strong Sense (of Something) 212
2 A Deep Sense (of Something) 231
3 A Sharp Sense (of Something) 242
4 A Good Sense (of Something) 250
5 A Great Sense (of Something) 262
6 A Real Sense (of Something) 269
7 A False Sense (of Something) 277
8 A Keen Sense (of Something) 279
9 A Clear Sense (of Something) 292
10 An Acute Sense (of Something) 302
7 Moral Sense 313
1 Moral Sense: A Human Universal or an Artifact of English? 313
2 A Brief History of the Concept of "Moral Sense," 317
3 Moral Sense in the Eighteenth Century and Now: A Comparison 322
4 A Sense of Right and Wrong in Present-Day English 324
5 Conclusion 326
8 Common Sense 328
1 The Importance of Common Sense in Anglo Culture 328
2 Common Sense in Law 333
3 The Uniqueness of English Common Sense (Common Sense vs. Bon Sens) 337
4 The Meaning of Common Sense in Contemporary English 346
5 Thomas Reid and the Origin of English Common Sense 354
6 Common Sense and the British Enlightenment 359
9 From having Sense to Making Sense 368
1 Being Sensible 368
2 Having Sense 372
3 Making Sense 377
Part IV Phraseology, Semantics, and Corpus Linguistics
10 Investigating English Phraseology with Two Tools: NSM and Google 395
1 An Overview 395
2 Clear and Stable Contrasts 396
3 Stable and Overwhelmingly Sharp Contrasts 397
4 Figures, Proportions, and Patterns 398
5 Anomalies: How Significant Are They? 400
6 Monitoring the Proportions of Strong Sense to Deep Sense 402
7 Limitations of Google as a Tool for Exploring English Phraseology 403
8 Comparing the Results of Google and Yahoo Searches 404
9 Concluding Remarks 405
Notes 407
References 417
Appendix 431
Index 441
