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Publication details [#44193]

Henst, Jean-Baptiste van der, Akiko Kawasaki, Hugo Mercier, Hiroshi Yama and Kuniko Adachi. 2006. Dealing with contradiction in a communicative context: A cross-cultural study. Intercultural Pragmatics 3 (4) : 487–502.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | context | contradicting | crosscultural communication | language and culture

Language as a subject

French | Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This paper compares the theoretical culturalist and evolutionary approaches, emphasizing respectively the impact of cultural and communicative context factors on people's address of contradiction in communicative contexts, and tests these two perspectives with Japanese and French interactants.