Educating the Whole Person
Robert Kaplan's Discourse Patterns. Kaplan's research resulted in the observation that cultures tend to shape the patterns by which they communicate. He illustrated these patterns for several major world cultural groups: Asian, Romance, Russian, Arab/Semetic, British and American. These are main stream, culturally informed language patterns; therefore, intra-cultural differences and complexity within these cultural groups must be regarded to maintain a balanced understanding..
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