Intercultural Communication

Oliver Günter Lazar

Sino-German Communication Interferences in Intercultural Teamwork: A Postmodern Approach

Schriften zur Kulturwissenschaft

Previously, research on multinational teamwork with various nationalities and cultures involved, which looked at the aspect of communication, was largely based on the examination of specific facilitators and barriers to its communication. There it was found that multinational teams might have specific communication facilitators dependent upon […]

Stephanie Rohac

Individual Cultural Intelligence

A Comparison to Other Individual Models of Intercultural Success, Its Assessment, and Individual Cross-Cultural Metacognition in Learning and Training

COMMUNICATIO

RELEVANCE.

Organizational success in international business depends heavily on the individual’s ability to manage cross-cultural interaction. There is a growing organizational demand to assess and train individual’s cross-cultural flexibility and self-regulated learning ability in cross-cultural contexts. Individuals need to cope with […]

Aleksandra Burgiel / Troy B. Wiwczaroski (eds.)

Global Leadership and Leadership Development

Betriebliche Personalentwicklung und Weiterbildung in Forschung und Praxis

This book has been developed as part of a broader project: ERASMUS+ KA203 - Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education project No. 2017-1-HU01-KA203-035918, known as PROMINENCE (Promoting mindful encounters through intercultural competence and experience). Four partner universities were involved in the research and writing of this book: […]

Alexandra Kallia

Politeness and Implicature

Expanding the Cooperative Principle

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Major approaches to politeness so far analyse it as a strategy to ensure smooth interaction. Politeness is seen as a norm, the expected thing in communication whose occurrence is not noticed most of the time. In my thesis I argue first for a threefold distinction among expected politeness (politic behaviour in Wattss s sense), unexpected […]