English across cultures, cultures across English : a reader in cross-cultural communication

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""Foreword""; ""The Authors""; ""The Editors""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""PART 1 : ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES""; ""Section One. The impact of différences in socio-cultural backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Socio-pragmatic constraints""; ""Some types of communicative stratégies across cultures: Sense and sensitivity""; ""English as object and medium of (mis)understanding""; ""The (mis)identification of regional and national accents of English: Pragmatic, cognitive and social aspects""; ""Culture and language in classroom communication"" English for academic purposes: A hidden curriculum in ways of speakingInvisible culture in the classroom: Minority pupils and the principie of adaptation

Section Two. The impact of differences in socio-political realities on communication in English: Macro-societal constraints

Intercultural miscommunication as a source of friction in the workplace and in educational settings in South Africa

Socio-political influence on cultural identity in Canada. Implications for cross-cultural communication in English

English as problem and resource in Sri Lankan Universities ""They speak English, don�t they?""""PART II: CULTURES ACROSS ENGLISH""; ""Section Three. The impact of différences in socio-linguistic backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Ethno-linguistic constraints""; ""British-American lexical differences. A typology of interdialectal variation""; ""Questions of standards and intra-regional differences in Caribbean examinations""; ""Structural mimicry in decreolization and its effect on pseudocomprehension""; ""Cultural congruence and conflict in the acquisition of formulae in a second language"" ""Dialectology in our time? The English of the Cajuns""""Flexibility in lexical usage in Cameroon English""; ""Cultures in conflict: Varieties of English in Northern Ireland""; ""Section Four. The impact of différences in socio-psychological identity of interlocutors: Identity constraints""; ""Patois and the politics of protest: Black English in British classrooms""; ""Code-switching in narrative performance: A Puerto Rican speech Community in New York""; ""Social and linguistic parameters of prosody in Chicano English"" Central Canadian English and Received Standard English. A comparison of pronunciationIndian literature in English

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