Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication
This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. This third volume explores the potential of Minimal English, a recent offsho
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Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication Minimal English (and Beyond)
Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication
Lauren Sadow Bert Peeters Kerry Mullan •
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Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication Minimal English (and Beyond)
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Editors Lauren Sadow Australian National University Canberra, ACT, Australia
Bert Peeters Australian National University Canberra, ACT, Australia
Kerry Mullan RMIT University Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-981-32-9978-8 ISBN 978-981-32-9979-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9979-5
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Dedicated to our good friend and colleague Cliff Goddard
Contents
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Minimal English: Taking NSM ‘Out of the Lab’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lauren Sadow
Part I
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Minimal English (and Beyond)
Using NSM and “Minimal” Language for Intercultural Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susana S. Fernández
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From Expensive English to Minimal English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deborah Hill
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“There is no Sex in the Soviet Union”: From Sex to Seks . . . . . . . Anna Wierzbicka and Anna Gladkova
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When Value Words Cross Cultural Borders: English Tolerant Versus Russian Tolerantnyj . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anna Gladkova
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The Confounding Mandarin Colour Term ‘Qīng’: Green, Blue, Black or All of the Above and More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jiashu Tao and Jock Wong
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Semantic Challenges
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