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Publication details [#49155]

Zhu, Yunxia. 2008. From cultural adaptation to cross-cultural discursive competence. Discourse & Communication 2 (2) : 185–204.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | business language | crosscultural communication | cultural anthropology | institutional context

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper presents a three-space (cultural, institutional and sociocognitive) conceptual model, developing the notional concepts of 'cultural space' and 'text reconstruction', to examine cross-cultural discursive competence, revealed in individual interactions in business contexts. .