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Iperstoria, 2019 Being relevant to the study of ELF more generally, the notion of Community of Practice (CoP) has been especially central to the work of some BELF scholars (e.g. Ehrenreich 2009, 2018; Cogo 2016). While many institutional business contexts in which ELF is
Marie-Luise Pitzl
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Saving and Maintaining Face: Metapragmatic Expressions in BELF Meetings
International Journal of English and Cultural Studies, 2022 English as a business lingua franca (BELF) has contributed to an increasing number of intercultural studies that aim to evaluate its complexities and participants’ pragmatic competence in this context. The worldwide use of BELF interactions is subject to multiple contextual factors, with metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) serving as one of the linguistic
Jialiang Chen
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, 2020 This research aims to explore the use of English as a lingua franca in business context (BELF; Louhiala-Salminen, Charles and Kankaanranta, 2005) between Thai business professionals and their business partners from other countries in Asian region in particular.
Paola Vettorel, Valeria Franceschi
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Commentary on Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005): Launching the notion of BELF
English for Specific Purposes, 2023 Inspired by English as a Lingua Franca approach in linguistics, Louhiala-Salminen et al. (2005) introduced the notion of BELF (then called Business English Lingua Franca) in their article on internal communication between Finns and Swedes in two Nordic corporate mergers.
Anne Kankaanranta
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, 2014 The present paper focuses on exploring the usage of communicative strategies (CSs) by business professionals who use business English as a lingua franca (BELF) in telephone negotiations. The purpose of the study is also to analyze the occurrence of misunderstanding and non-understandings.
Anton Marra
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Communication Strategies in BELF: implications for business English Language Teaching
, 2020 Status Quaestionis, N.
Paola Vettorel
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Building Rapport in BELF Communication: Solidarity Strategies in Business Emails
, 2020 In the globalized market, business professionals use emails to communicate with customers, suppliers, and even colleagues who may be based in any part of the world, employing English as a business lingua franca (BELF). Despite the goal-oriented nature of business communication, rapport is “an essential element in the building and maintenance of strong ...
Paola-Maria Caleffi
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Request Strategies in BELF Emails
International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature, 2022 WU Ji-hong
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New Advances in Second Language Acquisition Methodology in Higher Education
Education Sciences, 2021 This article summarizes new advances, as described by current research, in the methodology of teaching Business English as a lingua franca (BELF) in the era of mobile learning and provides the reader with hands-on strategies that are useful for BELF ...
Blanka Klimova, Marcel Pikhart
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Human Resource Management Journal, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 868-888, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Advancing, both conceptually and practically, the equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) agenda, which is notoriously difficult to implement, this paper addresses the under‐researched area of global diversity management (GDM) in multinational companies (MNCs). Drawing on Harrison and Klein's (2007) conceptualisations of diversity (separation,
Sylwia Ciuk +2 more
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