Publications

Publication details [#56675]

Wyatt, Brett and Suthinee Promkandorn. 2012. A discourse analysis of the Thai experience of “being krengjai”. Intercultural Pragmatics 9 (3) : 361–383.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | critical discourse analysis | crosslinguistic perspective | language and culture | translation

Language as a subject

English, British | Thai

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This crosslinguistic, historic study demonstrates that the multiplicity of (15 general in English language translated, then back into Thai translated) meanings of the Thai cultural practice of krengjai can be promptly accounted for by English-language research, employing a critical discourse analytic perspective to sharply define the context of the examined cultural practice.