In Defense of Culture

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Authors

Wierzbicka, Anna

Publisher

Sage Publications Inc

Abstract

The concept of 'culture', as used in anthropology and related fields, has been under continual and mounting criticism for several decades. This paper argues that while this concept needs indeed to be scrutinized and problematized, we are nonetheless much

Keywords

Keywords: Cross-cultural communication; Cross-cultural education; Cross-cultural experience; Cross-cultural literature; Cultural scripts; Natural semantic metalanguage (NSM); Universal human concepts

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/84546

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ANU Research Publications

Source

Theory and Psychology

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1177/0959354305054752

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2037-12-31

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