In Defense of ‘Culture’

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 575-597

  Wierzbicka, Anna ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cross cultural communication; cross cultural education; cross cultural experience; cross cultural literature; cultural scripts; natural semantic metalanguage (NSM); universal human concepts

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144468593     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354305054752     Document Type: Article

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