English Across Cultures, Cultures Across English: A Reader in Cross-cultural CommunicationOfelia García, Ricardo Otheguy |
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Introduction | 1 |
Section One The impact of differences in sociocultural | 11 |
English as object and medium of mis understanding | 31 |
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