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Publication details [#67001]

Nguyen, Thi Chau Ngan, Margaret Kettle and Catherine Doherty. 2019. From form to function: Mobile language resources in the Vietnamese customs setting. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 12 (4) : 344–363.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Findings highlight Vietnamese customs officers' functional deployment of English as the airport lingua franca and non-verbal resources to accomplish meaning, notably around the smooth and efficient security processing of travelers. The paper drew on (among others) Hymes’s Ethnography of Communication. The article concludes with implications for English for Specific Purposes curriculum design and materials development in the important but previously neglected area of customs communication.