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Publication details [#54924]

Thije, Jan D. ten and Katrin Beermann. 2011. Geared to Intercultural understanding: The technique of perspectivizing in biographical interviews about the East German TRABI. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (14) : 3579–3590.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This study on perspectivizing for intercultural comprehension examines realistic mechanisms of interlocutors' reflective activities and their communicative efforts that lead to interpersonal and mutual intercultural comprehension. These efforts are considered as functional pragmatic action knowledge embedded in receptive intercultural interaction. The used data are extracted from a study on biographical stories about the East German car, the Trabant.