A Semantic Metalanguage for a Crosscultural Comparison of Speech Acts and Speech Genres.

Wierzbicka, Anna

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A Semantic Metalanguage for a Crosscultural Comparison of Speech Acts and Speech Genres.

Wierzbicka, Anna

Language in Society, v14 n4 p491-513 Dec 1985

Claims that folk names of speech acts and speech genres are culture-specific and that a rigorous semantic analysis of such names, expressed in a culture-independent semantic metalanguage, can provide an important insight into communicative routines most characteristic of a given society. (SED)

Descriptors: Cultural Context, English, Folk Culture, Intercultural Communication, Japanese, Polish, Semantics, Sociocultural Patterns, Sociolinguistics, Speech Acts

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