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Publication details [#39582]

Peeters, Bert. 2004. ‘‘Thou shalt not be a tall poppy’’: Describing an Australian communicative (and behavioral) norm. Intercultural Pragmatics 1 (1) : 71–92.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative style | discourse analysis | language use | political language | sports language

Language as a subject

English, Australian

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This paper examines the tall poppy syndrome in Australian discourse, with specific reference to sports and federal politics, and employs Wierzbicka’s natural semantic metalanguage to explain the corresponding communicative norm ‘‘Thou shalt not be a tall poppy.’’