"Cultural Scripts" : A Semantic Approach to Cultural Analysis and Cross-Cultural Communication / Anna Wierzbicka.

This paper argues that the ways of speaking characteristic of a given speech-community cannot be satisfactorily described or explained in purely behavioral terms, that they constitute a behavioral manifestation of a tacit system of cultural rules or scripts, and that to understand a society's ways o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wierzbicka, Anna
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1994.
Subjects:	Behavior Patterns. Blacks. Contrastive Linguistics. Cross Cultural Studies. Cultural Traits. Foreign Countries. Intercultural Communication. Japanese. Language Patterns. Language Research. Language Universals. Linguistic Theory. North American English. Pragmatics. Semantics. Sociocultural Patterns. Whites. Reports, Evaluative.
Genre:	Reports, Evaluative.
Physical Description:	25 pages
Format:	Microfilm Book

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