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Speculations on the Growth of Ethnobotanical Nomenclature

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Berlin, Brent – Language in Society, 1972

Earlier draft of this paper prepared with the fellowship support of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a grant from the National Science Foundation, and distributed as Working Paper No. 39, Language-Behavior Research Laboratory (March 1971). (VM)

Descriptors: Botany, Classification, Cultural Enrichment, Diachronic Linguistics

Some Sources of Cultural Variability in the Regulation of Talk

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Philips, Susan Urmston – Language in Society, 1976

A comparison is made of the way in which talk is regulated, both verbally and nonverbally, in Anglo interaction with the regulation of talk among Indians of the Warm Springs Reservation in central Oregon. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: American Indians, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, English

The Universality of Conversational Postulates

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Keenan, Elinor Ochs – Language in Society, 1976

Grice's analysis of conversational maxims and implications is examined in the light of Malagasy language and ways of speaking. A cultural contrast in primary assumptions is described. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Language Universals

The Structure and Use of Politeness Formulas

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Ferguson, Charles A. – Language in Society, 1976

The use of interpersonal verbal routines such as greetings and thanks is examined as a universal phenomenon of human languages. Examples from Syrian Arabic, American English and other languages are used to show differing patterns of structure and use, susceptible of grammatical and sociolinguistic analysis. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Arabic, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Universals