torical survey of language and intercultural communication studies with a critical assessment
of past and present theory, research, and practice, as well as an insight into future directions …

Workplaces are spaces in which interlocutors meet and form relationships with others. Often
employees have little influence over the selection of people with whom they are required to …

In making a complaint, speakers attach a negative assessment to a person, an entity, or an
event. Verbalizing such an assessment in interaction transforms a previously individual …

Many businesses are becoming increasingly complex and reliant on the performance of
their multinational teams. Large corporations generally assume that the invocation of a …

Common ground, the 'sum of all the information that people assume they share'(Clark 2009:
116), plays a crucial role in any interaction both at a cognitive level, where it facilitates the …

This chapter takes a multidisciplinary approach to examining the impact of language and
culture on project partnerships and teams. It reviews research within international …