Culturally Situated Linguistic Ecologies and Language Use: Cultural Tools at the Service of Representing and Shaping Situated Realities

Advances in Culture and Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Semin, Gün R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emergence; Linguistic category model; Linguistic relativity; Situated linguistic ecologies; Social practices; Unintended consequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921555467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380392.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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