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Download full textWierzbicka, Anna – 1994
This paper argues that the ways of speaking characteristic of a given speech-community cannot be satisfactorily described or explained in purely behavioral terms, that they constitute a behavioral manifestation of a tacit system of cultural rules or scripts, and that to understand a society's ways of speaking, it is necessary to identify and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies
