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Publication details [#35165]

Wierzbicka, Anna. 1991. Japanese key words and core cultural values. Language in Society 20 (3) : 333–385.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | metalanguage | semantics2 | value

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper demonstrates how the use of a natural semantic metalanguage framework enables the study, comparison and explanation of Japanese culture through the analysis of its key words 'amae, enryo, wa, on, giri and seishin'.