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Publication details [#26656]

Günthner, Susanne. 1993. German-Chinese interactions. Differences in contextualization conventions and resulting miscommunication. Pragmatics 3 (3) : 283–304.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication breakdown | contextualization | crosscultural communication

Language as a subject

Chinese | German

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This analysis of German-Chinese interactions demonstrates how the use of culture-specific contextualization conventions can lead to intercultural miscommunication.