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Publication details [#60189]

Münchow, Patricia von. 2015. “Believe me when I say that this is not an attack on American parents”: The intercultural in intercultural parenting books. Multilingua 34 (6) : 797–820.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | family role | genre | intercultural communication | language and culture

Language as a subject

English, American | French

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper focuses on a fairly novel discursive genre, the intercultural parenting book, and demonstrates how Franco-American intercultural parenting books (FAIPBs) exhibit intercultural characteristics. Non-child-centred child raising, culturally located as a French practice, is discursively fostered.