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But none of this is helping Dorothy very much....... There is a good treatment of this kind of topic generally in the new edition of "Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach, 3rd Edition" by Ron Scollon<http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-302479.html?query=Ron+Scollon>, Suzanne Wong Scollon<http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-302479.html?query=Suzanne+Wong+Scollon>, and Rodney H. Jones<http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-302479.html?query=Rodney+H.+Jones>, out very soon. ISBN: 978-0-470-65640-2 December 2011, ©2012, Wiley-Blackwell The Scollons did some fascinating work on Athabaskan-European discourse in Canada. I discuss it briefly in my Penguin book "Sociolinguistics: an introduction to language and society". The negative position of the Athabaskan people there described re self-disclosure, self-promotion etc puts the English in the shade..... (You will notice that I have just done a bit of self-promotion myself........) ######################################################################## The Variationist List - discussion of everything related to variationist sociolinguistics. To send messages to the VAR-L list (subscribers only), write to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from the VAR-L list, click the following link: http://jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=VAR-L&A=1