Language, culture, cognition: How do they intersect?

Understanding Culture: Theory, Research, and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 259-270

  Semin, Gün R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781441605054     Document Type: Chapter

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