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Publication details [#44693]

Wierzbicka, Anna. 2006. The concept of ‘dialogue’ in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. Discourse Studies 8 (5) : 675–703.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural context | crosslinguistic perspective | dialogue | semantics2

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses how dialogue plays a very important role in English public discourse, how, via English, it has spread throughout the world, and examines, drawing on the NSM theory of semantics, what precisely constitutes 'dialogue' .