Accommodating toward your audience: Do native speakers of english know how to accommodate their communication strategies toward nonnative speakers of english?

Journal of Business Communication

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 477-504

  Sweeney, Emma ^a   Hua, Zhu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

business interactions; communication accommodation; English as a lingua franca; intercultural communication; negotiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956457832     PISSN: 00219436     EISSN: 15524582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021943610377308     Document Type: Article

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