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Publication details [#52990]

Grieve, Averil. 2010. “Aber ganz ehrlich”: Differences in episodic structure, apologies and truth-orientation in German and Australian workplace telephone discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (1) : 190–219.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | intercultural communication | telephone conversation | truth condition | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English, Australian | German

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study discusses differences in cultural style as to face, apology, and truth expression in German and Australian intercultural workplace telephone discourse.