Coding personhood through cultural terms and practices: Silence and quietude as a finnish "natural way of being"

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 203-220

  Carbaugh, Donal ^a   Berry, Michael ^b   Nurmikari Berry, Marjatta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

Communication codes; Cultural identity; Ethnography of communication; Intercultural interactions; Metapragmatics; Personhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746362096     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X06289422     Document Type: Article

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