Natural Semantic Metalanguage - Scienze della Formazione

NSM in prospettiva interculturale: i
cultural scripts
Cultural scripts are not intended to provide an account
of real life social interactions. Rather they are
intended as descriptions of commonly held assumptions
about how “people think” about social interaction.
Because people bring these assumptions with them into
everyday interactions, cultural scripts influence the
form taken by particular verbal encounters but they do
not in any sense determine individual interactions.
Individuals can and do vary in their speech behaviour.
The claim of the cultural scripts approach is merely
that the scripts form a kind of interpretive background
against which individuals position their own acts and
those of others. (dalla Natural Semantic Metalanguage
Homepage, www.une.edu.au/bcss/linguistics/nsm/)