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Question by cassiwoo: looking for examples of english (australiain espec.) and french cultural keywords. In a linguistics study sens?
I am tackling my 1st linguistics course. Its on cultural communication. I need to do a study of 1-3 cultural keywords, like find examples of them and their meanings.
I am not 100% sure what cultural keywords are. Is the word ‘cool’ for example a cultural keyword?
I speak some french so I am open to french suggestions also.
thnx

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Answer by P.J.
This was the best I could find and gives three examples of english cultural keywords.
The study of phraseology, which not long ago was often dismissed as a linguistic activity of only minor interest, has now come into its own and is an increasingly popular and diversified field, with many different approaches and foci of interest. Significantly, regardless of their particular focus and goals, more and more writers adopt corpus-based approaches to phraseological phenomena. This article arises from a larger study of various phraseological networks based on the English cultural keyword sense (as in, e.g., a sense of humor, a sense of direction and a sense of relief),

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