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Achieving mutual understanding in intercultural project partnerships : co-operation, self-orientation, and fragility

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Žegarac, Vladimir and Spencer-Oatey, Helen (2013) Achieving mutual understanding in intercultural project partnerships : co-operation, self-orientation, and fragility. Intercultural Pragmatics, Volume 10 (Number 3). pp. 433-458. doi:10.1515/ip-2013-0019

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2013-0019

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Abstract

Communication depends on cooperation in at least the following way: In order to be successful, communicative behavior needs to be adjusted to the general world knowledge, abilities, and interests of the hearer, and the hearer's success in figuring out the message and responding to it needs to be informed by assumptions about the communicator's informative intentions, personal goals, and communicative abilities. In other words, interlocutors cooperate by coordinating their actions in order to fulfill their communicative intentions. This minimal assumption about cooperativeness must in one way or another be built into the foundations of any plausible inferential model of human communication. However, the communication process is also influenced to a greater or lesser extent, whether intentionally and consciously or unintentionally and unconsciously, by the participants' orientation toward, or preoccupation with, their own concerns, so their behavior may easily fall short of being as cooperative as is required for achieving successful communication.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Communication models, Language and languages -- Cross-cultural studies, Facial expression
Journal or Publication Title: Intercultural Pragmatics
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
ISSN: 1612-295X
Official Date: 23 August 2013
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23 August 2013Published
10 August 2013Available
Volume: Volume 10
Number: Number 3
Page Range: pp. 433-458
DOI: 10.1515/ip-2013-0019
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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