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Publication details [#60594]

Holmes, Prue. 2015. ‘The cultural stuff around how to talk to people’: immigrants' intercultural communication during a pre-employment work-placement. Language and Intercultural Communication 15 (1) : 109–124.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | immigrant | intercultural communication | social interaction | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Drawing on data from a small survey of immigrants' intercultural communication experiences during a pre-employment volunteer work-placement in New Zealand, this study explores what intercultural communication (easing versus restraining) challenges immigrants face in the course of work-placement with co-workers and employer(s).