//↗you need to be ruthless //: Entertaining cross-cultural differences

Language and Intercultural Communication

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-56

  Cheng, Winnie ^a   Warren, Martin ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cross cultural communication; Discourse intonation; Media communication; Quiz show in Hong Kong; The weakest link

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248708858     PISSN: 14708477     EISSN: 1747759X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14708470608668907     Document Type: Article

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