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Xiangling, Li. 1995. Is interrupting impolite ? Some temporal aspects of turn-taking in Chinese-Western and other intercultural business encounters. Text 15 (4) : 589–627.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intercultural communication | interruption | meeting | politeness | turn-taking

Language as a subject

Chinese | Dutch | Finnish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper on discourse convention differences in intercultural interaction, focusses on interruption behavior during Dutch-Chinese and Finnish-Chinese business negotiations. Chinese conventionally tend to interrupt more, Dutch and Finnish attempt to 'accomodate' them by interrupting more than they are used to.