Publications

Publication details [#51335]

Goddard, Cliff. 2009. Not taking yourself too seriously in Australian English: Semantic explications, cultural scripts, corpus evidence. Intercultural Pragmatics 6 (1) : 29–53.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cultural script | ethnopragmatics | language and culture | natural semantic metalanguage | value

Language as a subject

English, Australian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study uses the techniques of Natural Semantic Metalanguage and ethnopragmatics to explore the mainstream Australian English speech culture's proscription of taking yourself too seriously.