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Publication details [#48936]

Domingues Ferreira da Cruz, Mario Rui. 2008. Intercultural Cybercommunication: Negotiation of Representations of Languages and Cultures in Multilingual Chatrooms. Journal of multicultural discourses 3 (2) : 98–113.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cyberspace | intercultural communication | language and culture | language proficiency | representational structure

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This article discusses how the English and Portuguese as a foreign language proficiency of university students from Portugal and the USA can be developed in multiligual chatrooms. The analysis focuses on the negotiation of language and culture representations in order to explore the intercultural communicative and plurilingual proficiencies in action.