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The Development of Intercultural Communication Theories in China
Intercultural communication was introduced to China by foreign language teaching researchers in the early 1980s. At the beginning, Chinese scholars...
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Discovering Intercultural Communication From Language Users to Language Use
This textbook provides a succinct, contemporary introduction to intercultural communication with a focus on actual language use. With English as a...
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Barriers in Intercultural Communication
Although it is critical to living in the modern world, there are a number of challenges to effective intercultural communication. In particular,...
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Global Englishes: Dialogue and Communication in the Workplace
This chapter considers the role of English as the language of business, exploring how in an increasingly globalised world, English is now central to...
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Adjustments as Strategies for Successful Communication
We present Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) as a way of approaching ELF communication as intercultural communication contexts. Many...
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Communication Accommodation Theory as an Intervention Tool to Improve Interprofessional Practice in Healthcare
Leonard et al. (The Human Factor: The Critical Importance of Effective Teamwork and Communication in Providing Safe Care. Quality and Safety in...
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Cooperative Learning and Interpersonal, Interpretive, and Presentational Communication
This chapter explicates the dimensions of interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communication and links them to effective cooperative...
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Principles of presupposition in development
This paper brings a developmental perspective to the discussion of a longstanding issue surrounding the proper characterization of presuppositions....
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Communication in Workplaces: Equal Services and Professional Discourses
Four workplace settings are examined in this chapter: healthcare, law, aviation, and business. The first two of these contexts, healthcare and the...
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Translation as an Ethical Intervention? Building Trust in Healthcare Crisis Communication
An overabundance of (mis)information has accompanied the pandemic, posing a severe problem as it became an infodemic in public health communication....
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Dialect Contact
In this chapter, we continue our investigation of contact-induced change, but with a focus on contact between different varieties of English. The key...
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Develo** a Sense of Community Online Through Intercultural Communication: A Gamified Approach
This study focuses on how to create a sense of community among university language students by raising their intercultural awareness in online...
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Sojourners Online: Social Media and Online Communication as a Data Source in Study Abroad Research
This chapter emphasizes the extent to which sojourners’ lives abroad are now also lived online and the need to further incorporate this reality into...
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Introduction
Language, as a fundamental means of human interaction and communication.
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The Negotiation of Meaning: Communication Strategies and Identities
The central topic of this book, meaning and the negotiation of meaning, is introduced and positioned within the broader research context in this...
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An Analysis of Accommodation during English Team Teaching in a Japanese Primary School: From an ELF Perspective
This study investigates how homeroom teachers (HRTs), assistant language teachers (ALTs), and pupils interact with one another in order to enhance...
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Speaking and Embodying Cultures
Socialisation in talking involves more than just speaking, with nonverbal communication also important in interactions. Speech is a physical process...
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Gender Differences, Authority’s Discredibility, and Political Crisis: A Comparative Reading of Wang Shifu’s **xiang Ji and Lessing’s Minna von Barnhelm
Although Wang Shifu’s **xiang ji ( The Story of the Western Wing ) and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Minna von Barnhelm were written against different...
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Integrating Cultural Conceptualization and Communication Courses into Business Administration Curricula
Standard business administration curricula at German universities generally do not include communication courses. The TU Bergakademie Freiberg...
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Fiction and importation
Importation in fictional discourse is the phenomenon by which audiences include information in the story over and above what is explicitly stated by...
