CrossCultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction - Couverture souple

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Wierzbicka, Anna

 
9783110177695: CrossCultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction
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ISBN 10 : 3110177692 ISBN 13 : 9783110177695
Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 2003

Synopsis

This book, which can be seen as both a research monograph and a text book, challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal "maxims of conversation" and "principles of politeness", which fly in the face of reality as experienced by millions of people - refugees, immigrants, crosscultural families, and so on. By contrast to such approaches, which can be of no use in crosscultural communication and education, this book is both theoretical and practical: it shows that in different societies, norms of human interaction are different and reflect different cultural attitudes and values; and it offers a framework within which different cultural norms and different ways of speaking can be effectively explored, explained, and taught. The book discusses data from a wide range of languages, including English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Walmatjari (an Australian Aboriginal language), and it shows that the meanings expressed in human interaction and the different "cultural scripts" prevailing in different speech communities can be described and compared in a way that is clear, simple, rigorous, and free of ethnocentric bias by using a "natural semantic metalanguage", based on empirically established universal human concepts. As the book shows, this metalanguage can be used as a basis for teaching successful cross-cultural communication and education, including the teaching of languages in a cultural context.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anna Wierzbicka is Professor at Australian National University, Canberra.

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Éditeur
De Gruyter Mouton
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3110177692
ISBN 13 
9783110177695
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
540
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9783112329757: Cross-cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human Interaction

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  3112329759 ISBN 13 :  9783112329757
Editeur : De Gruyter Mouton, 1991
Couverture rigide