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Publication details [#10611]

Blommaert, Jan. 1991. How much culture is there in intercultural communication? In Blommaert, Jan, ed. The pragmatics of intercultural and international communication: Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17-22, 1987, vol.3, and the Ghent Symposium on Intercultural Communication. John Benjamins. pp. 13–31.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural context | culture | pragmatic theory

Annotation

Theoretical essay on intercultural communication, centering around two questions: (a) What kind of linguistic theory is needed for an adequate analysis of intercultural communication?, and (b) What does the study of intercultural communication imply for the issue of interdisciplinarity in linguistics?