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von Münchow, Patricia – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
"Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" (Chua, 2011) and "Bringing up bébé: One American mother discovers the wisdom of French parenting" (Druckerman, 2012) are two recent global bestsellers belonging to a relatively new discursive genre: the intercultural parenting book. The purpose of this article is to present the first findings…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Books, Cultural Influences
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Hahn, Jee-Won; Hatfield, Hunter – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2011
Brown and Levinson's ([1978] Politeness: Some universals in language use, Cambridge University Press, 1987) politeness theory has been criticized as being ethnocentric by displaying a Western preoccupation with autonomy and individualism. Many non-western societies, it is argued, are better understood by appealing to cultural discernment or group…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Language Usage, Intimacy, Foreign Countries