Rethinking social identity theory in international encounters: Language use as a negotiated object for identity making

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-361

  Lauring, Jakob ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Ethnicity; Ethnography; Language management; Socio linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 61149203660     PISSN: 14705958     EISSN: 17412838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470595808096673     Document Type: Article

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