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Peer reviewedYoumans, Madeleine – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2001
Compared the use of selected epistemic modals in the English speech of Chicano barrio residents and Anglo visitors to the community. Transcribed conversations served as the database. Discusses the epistemic modal functions used the most disparately between groups. Differences are shown to relate to cross-culturally different uses of epistemic…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
Peer reviewedGalejs, Irma; Huang, Victoria – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1983
Compares American and Chinese school-age (K-2) children's cooperative-competitive behavior using a puzzle completion task. No significant cultural differences between the two groups' cooperative and competitive behaviors were found. Variance analyses indicated that children in the higher grades performed more cooperatively than children in the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Chinese Culture, Competition, Cooperation
