culturally-specific or general sociolinguistics?
Various factors have been reported by UK media in recent years
concerning the effect one's culture has on one's behaviour. This
link is to a US-oriented research programme which only details
linguistic self-descriptors couched in English lexicon. Would we
accept without question it applies to ourselves in the UK as is?
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/071114-cheating-basics.html
G DAEB
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