The Languages of Business
An International Perspective
Published on 1. July 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-7486-0833-1 (ISBN)
Description
What do real people around the world actually say when they meet for business purposes? This book explores how people around the world, speaking different languages, accomplish business. It explores the cultural assumptions underlying a variety of task-oriented verbal interactions - from a simple book purchase to a complex bargaining session. The languages covered include varieties of English (British, American and Australian) used in inter-cultural settings - such as American and Japanese, or Australian and Korean/Vietnamese Japanese - and other languages such as German, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese as used in intra-cultural situations.
Reviews / Votes
The nine exploratory contributions to this compilation have one more characteristic in common. All of them end with a section of Practical Tips in which the authors present some of the more important cultural or business features that the practitioner has to take into account. Strange as this may seem in a scientific reader on linguistic aspects of business encounters, it provides this edition with something extra over the average textbook. -- J Piet Verckens The nine exploratory contributions to this compilation have one more characteristic in common. All of them end with a section of Practical Tips in which the authors present some of the more important cultural or business features that the practitioner has to take into account. Strange as this may seem in a scientific reader on linguistic aspects of business encounters, it provides this edition with something extra over the average textbook.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-0833-1 (9780748608331)
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Persons
Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini has published widely on business discourse. She is currently working as an independent researcher. Professor Emeritus, Nottingham Trent University
Content
Styles in contrast - American and Japanese business discourse, H. Yamada; outcomes of language and cultural contact - Australian and Japanese business interaction, H. Marriott; the Asian connection - business requests and acknowledgements, J. Mulholland; interruptive behaviour in Chinese-European business negotiations, M. Li and J. Ulijn; lexical landscaping in Brazilian and British business meetings, H. Collins and M. Scott; humour as a strategy in Spanish and Scandinavian business negotiations, A. Grinstead; requests in German-Norwegien business discourse - an analytical model, I. Neumann; managing discouse - British and Italian corporate meetings, F. Bargiela and S. Harris; comparing service encounters in English and Italian - a multiparty discourse perspective, L. Gavioli; languages with languages - a social constructionist perspective in multiple managerial discourses, T. Watson.