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Publication details [#65739]

Spencer-Oatey, Helen and Carolin Debray. 2019. ‘On the same page?’ Marginalisation and positioning practices in intercultural teams. Journal of Pragmatics 144 : 15–28.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intercultural communication | language proficiency | participation framework | silence | stereotype

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Less language-skilled team members are marginalised in intercultural teams. They are put as tough, other and unable, independent of expertise. Contributions are interactionally shut up, debarring them from affecting tasks. Repetition continues positionings and averts repositioning.