Two levels of verbal communication, universal and culture-specific
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The 'naive' (non-scientific) models of the human person embedded in everyday language differ a great deal across languages and often lead us to the heart of the shared cultural values of the speech community in question. Even within Europe the models of the human person embedded in different languages are quite diverse. Remarkably, all human cultures appear to agree that human beings have a body (that people can see) and 'something else' (that people can't see), The construal of this...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2016 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/262951 |
Book Title: | Verbal Communication |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110255478-024 |
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