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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
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 | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| 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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| 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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