From cultural adaptation to cross-cultural discursive competence

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 185-204

  Yunxia, Zhu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cross cultural discursive competence; Cultural space; Text reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449117897     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481307088483     Document Type: Article

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