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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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Vergaro, Carla – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
This paper presents an analysis of the pragmatic use of concessive constructions in business letter discourse. In linguistics concession has been analyzed primarily within concessive clauses which have been widely studied, either alone or compared with other syntactic categories such as adversative, causal or conditional clauses. The term…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Form Classes (Languages), Traditional Grammar, Pragmatics