Cross-cultural pragmatic failure

This paper explores the study of failures in intercultural communication due to misunderstandings in the linguistic field of pragmatics. It focuses on three areas of pragmatics; compliments, refusals and complaints and examines how cultural misunderstandings can arise in these areas with examples fr...

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Main Author: Peter McGee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2019-03-01
Series:Training, Language and Culture
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Online Access:https://rudn.tlcjournal.org/archive/3(1)/3(1)-05.pdf