Establishing common ground through trust-building in negotiations – A linguistic analysis of intercultural interactions in banking services
Trust is vitally important in both personal and business relationships. There should be trust in order to achieve successful cooperation between partners. However, the phenomenon... Read More
Intertextuality and the blogosphere: an analysis of forms and functions of intertextuality in the human rights blogs
This paper addresses the forms and functions of intertextuality in the academic blogs offering critical analyses of the European Court of Human Rights’ legal reasoning.... Read More
Environment and energy: a cross-cultural study
Company disclosure is critical both internally and externally, and will result in an opportunity or a threat, a positive or a negative response by the... Read More
The discursive mobilization of stereotypes in conversations about intercultural encounters in Greece
This study explores the discursive construction of ethnic, cultural, and national stereotypes by diasporic Greek return migrants in conversations about their experiences moving to Greece... Read More
One in one out! Social distance regulations communicated by Greek and British businesses.
The containment measures introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic have impacted on many aspects of people’s lives. Restrictions on face-to-face contacts have also led to new... Read More
Trusting transparency in cross-cultural pharmaceutical discourse
When it comes to people’s health, the notion of transparency (Hood, 2006) and its cross-cultural communicative implications may be crucial in the construction of discourse... Read More
The pragmatics of style: Translating for the multimodal art exhibition space
Museums and art galleries are not only spaces of awe and wonder. They are “contact zones” (Clifford, 1997) that have the potential to promote learning... Read More
Focusing on pragmatics as a way of fostering intercultural communicative competence in second language classrooms: A Danish case study
Despite the pivotal role that Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) (Byram, 1997, 2020) holds in theoretical discourse and policymaking, it frequently remains overlooked in second and... Read More
Rating communicative adequacy in students’ elicited email requests to faculty – an analysis of individual performance in Italian L1 and English L2
Communicative expertise is shaped by socialisation practices, which vary across groups characterised by different stable social traits (e.g. education, status) and across individuals, who may... Read More
Using conversation analysis (CA) as a pedagogical tool to enhance learners’ intercultural pragmatic abilities
Dervin and Liddicoat (2013) have called for a more learner-centred, non-essentialist and linguistic approach towards intercultural interaction learning. In response to this call, CA, even... Read More