The English expressions good boy and good girl and cultural models of child rearing

Culture and Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 251-278

  Wierzbicka, Anna ^a,b,c,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ANU   (Australia)

^c Acad of Social Sci of Australia   (Australia)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Anglo culture; Child rearing; Cultural history of English; Cultural models; Cultural psychology; Natural Semantic Metalanguage; Puritanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244252851     PISSN: 1354067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X04042888     Document Type: Article

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