1.IntroductionThe rapid growth and expansion of global interaction inbusiness,education,the arts,etc.,have made it important forindividuals working in bicultural settings to have anunderstanding of the dynamics of cro...1.IntroductionThe rapid growth and expansion of global interaction inbusiness,education,the arts,etc.,have made it important forindividuals working in bicultural settings to have anunderstanding of the dynamics of cross-cultural communication.Scollon and Scollon(1995) state that as a result of theirresearch in international business consultation,it has beendiscovered that some of the main reasons for miscommunicationin the cross-cultural context lie in differences in patterns ofdiscourse rather than as a result of mispronunciation,poorgrammar or underdeveloped lexical resources.They write that,展开更多
文摘1.IntroductionThe rapid growth and expansion of global interaction inbusiness,education,the arts,etc.,have made it important forindividuals working in bicultural settings to have anunderstanding of the dynamics of cross-cultural communication.Scollon and Scollon(1995) state that as a result of theirresearch in international business consultation,it has beendiscovered that some of the main reasons for miscommunicationin the cross-cultural context lie in differences in patterns ofdiscourse rather than as a result of mispronunciation,poorgrammar or underdeveloped lexical resources.They write that,