Aligning international editing efforts with global business strategies

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 16-23

  Leininger, Carol ^a   Yuan, Rue ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global business strategy; Linguistic editing; Political editing; Socio cultural editing; Technical editing; Textual translation

Indexed keywords

FILE EDITORS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LINGUISTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

GLOBAL BUSINESS STRATEGY; INTERNATIONAL EDITING; LINGUISTIC EDITING; MULTILINGUAL READERSHIP; MULTINATIONAL DISTRIBUTION; POLITICAL EDITING; SOCIO-CULTURAL EDITING; TECHNICAL EDITING; TEXTUAL TRANSLATION;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 0032026722     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.661627     Document Type: Article

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