Semantics, cross-cultural style.

Are Cantonese-speakers really descriptivists? Revisiting cross-cultural semantics.

In an article in Cognition [Machery, E., Mallon, R., Nichols, S., & Stich, S. (2004). Semantics cross-cultural style. Cognition, 92, B1-B12] present data which purports to show that East Asian Cantonese-speakers tend to have descriptivist intuitions about the referents of proper names, while Western English-speakers tend to have causal-historical intuitions about proper names. Machery et al. ta...

Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and ‎Intercultural Communication: Ethnopragmatics and Semantic ‎Analysis, Lauren Sadow, Bet Peeters & Kerry Mullan (Eds.) ‎‎(2019), Springer, ISBN 978-981-32-9982-5‎

‘Early interactions’ in Australian English, American English, and English English: Cultural differences and cultural scripts

This study applies the techniques of contrastive ethnopragmatics to communicative style in initial conversational interactions in three varieties of Anglo English: Australian English, American English, and English English. It proposes for each variety a distinctive suite of cultural scripts concerning matters such as presumed stance in relation to sameness and difference, degree of attention to...

Enhancing Web Page Security with Security Style Sheets

Although the web security community now has a variety of techniques that could help web developers to defend against common attacks such as cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery, this work is not in a form suitable for general use. What is needed is a web standard that unites these techniques using syntax and semantics that are easy for web developers to learn and straightforward ...

Management Styles and Commitment: A Cross-Cultural Study

A cross-cultural model designed to investigate the cultural influences on leadership and management styles adopted by managers as well as the effect of different management styles on affective commitment intensity is presented. It is further argued that culture significantly influences affective commitment intensity independently from the management style. Research propositions are formulated b...

Attachment styles and PTSD in adolescents in three Nordic Countries

Studies of possible variables influencing development of posttraumatic stress (PTSD) are of great importance in the effort to enhance preventive and interventional methods in the aim to prevail this devastating condition. Despite the vast research in adults, little is still known of adolescents. Although research is scarce, attachment style has been identified to be an influencing factor in adu...