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Areal cultural scripts for social interaction in West African communities
Ways of interacting and not interacting in human societies have social, cognitive and cultural dimensions...
Keywords: cultural scripts, names, interactional taboo, triadic communication, speech area, Ewe, Fulfulde
11/2004 | Intercultural Pragmatics, Walter de GruyterNot just words: Korean social models and the use of honorifics
Korean is widely known for its extremely elaborate system of honorification. This paper attempts to capture and articulate Korean cultural scripts about social relationships and associated communicative norms pertinent to the honorific system and in numerous fixed expressions...
Keywords: cultural scripts, Korean honorific system, communicative norms, cultural values, intertranslatability
11/2004 | Intercultural Pragmatics, Walter de GruyterChinese categorization of interpersonal relationships and the cultural logic of Chinese social interaction: An indigenous perspective
This paper explores the conceptual basis of Chinese social organization, and examines how the fundamental Chinese categories of interpersonal relationships affect Chinese ways of speaking and social interaction...
Keywords: cultural scripts, interpersonal relationships, social categories, insider-outsider, Chinese communicative style
11/2004 | Intercultural Pragmatics, Walter de GruyterCultural scripts, ways of speaking and perceptions of personal autonomy: Anglo English vs. Singapore English
Every language variety embodies a set of culture-specific ways of thinking that can be articulated with maximal clarity and minimal ethnocentrism in the form of ‘cultural scripts’ using natural semantic metalanguage (NSM)...
Keywords: cultural scripts, Anglo English, Singapore English, natural semantic metalanguage (NSM), personal autonomy
11/2004 | Intercultural Pragmatics, Walter de GruyterThe ethnopragmatics of the diminutive in conversational Colombian Spanish
This paper considers the cultural values manifested in the use of the diminutive suffix
Keywords: cultural scripts, diminutive, Spanish, ethnopragmatics, speech acts, mitigation
11/2004 | Intercultural Pragmatics, Walter de Gruyter