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The languages of business : an international perspective / Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Sandra Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discourse analysis.
- Business communication.
- Intercultural communication.
- Corporate meetings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 257 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1997.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. languages of business: Introduction and overview / Sandra Harris and Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini
- Ch. 2. Spoken discourse in the multicultural workplace in Hong Kong: Applying a model of discourse as 'impression management' / Graham T. Bilbow
- Ch. 3. Australian-Japanese business interaction: Some features of language and cultural contact / Helen Marriott
- Ch. 4. Requests in German-Norwegian business discourse: Difference in directness / Ingrid Neumann
- Ch. 5. Asian connection: Business requests and acknowledgements / Joan Mulholland
- Ch. 6. Organisation in American and Japanese meetings: Task versus relationship / Haru Yamada
- Ch. 7. Bookshop service encounters in English and Italian: Notes on the achievement of information and advice / Laura Gavioli
- Ch. 8. Joking as a strategy in Spanish and Danish negotiations / Annette Grindsted
- Ch. 9. Lexical landscaping in business meetings / Heloisa Collins and Mike Scott
- Ch. 10. Languages within languages: A social constructionist perspective on multiple managerial discourses / Tony J. Watson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-248) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca. Languages of business.
- ISBN:
- 9781474401005
- 1474401007
- Publisher Number:
- 99984166505
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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