Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure in Computer-Mediated Communication

The study reported in this paper examines the occurrence of cross-cultural misunderstandings in computer-mediated communication (CMC). CMC has become a part of many people’s everyday life; rules of language practice such as politeness and other characteristics of relational communication are blurred...

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Main Authors: Martina Baumer, Henriette van Rensburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2011-03-01
Series:Coolabah
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Online Access:http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/coolabah/article/view/15683/18798