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Nair-Venugopal, Shanta – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2003
Reviews the construct of speech intelligibility as expounded by Cathford half a century ago in a landmark treatise and in the collaborative efforts of Smith, Nelson, and Rafiqzad to examine its relevance to intercultural communication in a new millennium beset by the contradictory global tensions of homogeneity and fragmentation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Intercultural Communication, Mutual Intelligibility, Second Language Instruction