Goddard, Cliff, & Wierzbicka, Anna (2004). Cultural scripts: What are they and what are they good for? Intercultural Pragmatics, 1(2), 153-166. DOI: 10.1515/iprg.2004.1.2.153
The term cultural scripts refers to a powerful new technique for articulating cultural norms, values, and practices in terms which are clear, precise, and accessible to cultural insiders and to cultural outsiders alike. This result is only possible because cultural scripts are formulated in a tightly constrained, yet expressively flexible, metalanguage, known as NSM, consisting of simple words (semantic primes) and grammatical patterns that have equivalents in all languages.
Research carried out by one or more experienced NSM practitioners
