TY - CHAP
T1 - "Laid back” and “irreverent”
T2 - an ethnopragmatic analysis of two cultural themes in Australian English communication
AU - Cramer, Rahel
AU - Goddard, Cliff
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Consider this quotation from a study into Australian–American communication issues: “Australian men and women are friendly, humorous, and sardonic (derisive, disdainful, and scornful)” (Renwick, 1980[1991], p. 22). Surely it poses a puzzle: What cultural logic is at play whereby can Australians be “friendly [and] humorous” and yet at the same time “derisive, disdainful, and scornful”?
AB - Consider this quotation from a study into Australian–American communication issues: “Australian men and women are friendly, humorous, and sardonic (derisive, disdainful, and scornful)” (Renwick, 1980[1991], p. 22). Surely it poses a puzzle: What cultural logic is at play whereby can Australians be “friendly [and] humorous” and yet at the same time “derisive, disdainful, and scornful”?
UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Handbook-of-Communication-in-Cross-cultural-Perspective/Carbaugh/p/book/9781138892118
U2 - 10.4324/9781315709321.ch8
DO - 10.4324/9781315709321.ch8
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781138892118
SN - 9781138892095
T3 - International Communication Association handbook series
SP - 89
EP - 103
BT - Handbook of communication in cross-cultural perspective
A2 - Carbaugh, Donal
PB - Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
CY - New York
ER -