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Publication details [#41066]

Carbaugh, Donal, Michael Berry and Marjatta Nurmikari-Berry. 2004. Communicating Finnish Quietude: A Pedagogical Process for Discovering Implicit Cultural Meanings in Languages. Language and Intercultural Communication 4 (4) : 209–228.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intercultural communication | language acquisition | language of wider communication

Language as a subject

English | Finnish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This study demonstrates that communicating implicit cultural meanings, embedded in Finnish, about quietude, via another language (English), provides considerable challenges.