Communicating Risk in a Cross-Cultural Context: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Rhetorical and Social Understandings in U.S. and British Mine Safety Training Programs

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 306-329

  Sauer, Beverly A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030557248     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651996010003002     Document Type: Article

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