ISBN:
9781317877554
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1317877551
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (264 pages)
Edition:
[S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
Language in social life series
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Miscommunication
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Discourse analysis Social aspects
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Sociolinguistics
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Malentendus (Communication)
;
Analyse du discours Aspect social
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Langage et culture
;
Sociolinguistique
;
Discourse analysis Social aspects
;
Miscommunication
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Malentendus (Communication)
;
Analyse du discours Aspect social
;
Langage et culture
;
Sociolinguistique
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon in social life, sometimes with serious consequences for people''s life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stakes events such as job interviews or in the legal system. In unequal power encounters, unsuccessful communication is regularly attributed to the less powerful participant, especially when those participants are members of an ethnic minority group. But even when communicative events are not prestructured by participants'' differential positions in social hierarchies, misunderstandings occur at different levels of interac
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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Print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
,
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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