Professional Communication in International Settings

In today's global business environment it is necessary to communicate successfully across cultural boundaries of languages, styles, and values. Professional Communication in International Settings provides a practical way to help individuals deal with a variety of cultural practices by systematically developing their own capacity to learn culturally appropriate behaviors and actions. 
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<li>Proposes a new approach to intercultural communication. 
</li> <li>Includes training material that illustrates how to effectively develop intercultural communication. 
</li> <li>Represents the outcome of thirty years of consultation experience as well as six years of research in Hong Kong, Finland, and Beijing.</li> </ul>

Business & Money

Scollon, Ron

Pan, Yuling

Scollon, Suzanne Wong

International

Wiley/Blackwell

The Sociolinguistics of Survey Translation

Politics & Social Sciences

Sha, Mandy

Park, Hyunjoo

Social Sciences

Routledge

The Sociolinguistics of Survey Translationpresents an overview of challenges in survey translation, introduces a sociolinguistic framework to overcome these challenges and demonstrates step-by-step how this framework works to guide and evaluate survey translation. Topics covered in the book include the relationship between linguistic rules, cultural norms, and social practices and their impact on survey translation, the role of orthography and semiotic symbols in translation, translation of different types of survey materials, and various stages of translation review and evaluation. This accessible book not only demonstrates how sociolinguistics can be a useful framework to address thorny survey translation problems, but also provides practical and useful tools to guide survey translators and survey practitioners as they conduct and evaluate survey translations. Presenting easy to implement yet comprehensive survey translation methodology and providing practical tools for survey translators, practitioners and students, this book is the essential guide to this fast-growing area. comprehensive survey translation methodology and providing practical tools for survey translators, practitioners and students, this book is the essential guide to this fast-growing area.

Pan and Kadar's exciting research compares historical and contemporary Chinese (im)polite communication norms and maps the similarities and differences between them. Considering the importance of China on the world stage, understanding Chinese politeness norms is pivotal, to both experts of communication studies and those who have interactions with the Chinese community.

Politeness in Historical and Contemporary Chinese

Kádár, Dániel Z.

Religion & Spirituality

Bloomsbury Academic

Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction (Advances in Discourse Processes, 67)

This book attempts to bring in the perspective of situational variation in analyzing linguistic politeness, and looks at politeness in the larger framework of social context. It outlines the way into the problem of politeness in Chinese culture and the steps taken in the application of politeness strategies in verbal interaction.

Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction (Advances in Discourse Processes)

History

Asia

Praeger

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Continuum

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