Empirical universals of language as a basis for the study of other human universals and as a tool for exploring cross-cultural differences

Ethos

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 256-291

  Wierzbicka, Anna ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural models; Ethno ethics; Ethnopsychology; Japanese; Korean; Language universals; Languages: Russian; Universals of time and space

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844570313     PISSN: 00912131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/eth.2005.33.2.256     Document Type: Review

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