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Desilla, Louisa – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
This article examines the construal, cross-cultural relay and comprehension of misunderstandings by filmmakers, translators and audiences respectively of "Bridget Jones's Diary" (2001) and "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" (2004). It reports on findings of a case-study on implicatures in these two romantic comedies (Desilla…
Descriptors: Films, Translation, Second Languages, Intercultural Communication
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Wilczewski, Michal; Søderberg, Anne-Marie; Gut, Arkadiusz – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
This study investigates Polish expatriates' stories of encounters with local personnel in a Chinese subsidiary of a Western multinational company. A narrative analysis of the stories produced important insights into Polish-Chinese communication in an intra-subsidiary context. Low proficiency in the host language was a serious obstacle to…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Immigrants, Corporations, International Trade
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Subtirelu, Nicholas Close – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
Institutions of higher education (HEIs) in English-speaking countries have been engaged in internationalization for decades. Among the many factors driving their internationalization are commitments to increasing and celebrating diversity as well as a desire to foster cross-cultural cooperation. Nonetheless, the linguistic diversity of their…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Foreign Students, Higher Education, Applied Linguistics