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Investigating the Role of Pragmatics in Cross-Cultural Communication: A Comparative Analysis of Speech Acts in Different Cultures

مجلة ابحاث ميسان
This research delves into the complexities of cross-cultural communication, emphasizing the crucial role of pragmatics, particularly speech acts, in facilitating effective intercultural interactions.
Rasha Hussan
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Theoretical foundations of intercultural business communication and their practical consequences

SHS Web of Conferences, 2016
Intercultural business communication is well researched regarding theoretical foundations; however, we still lack practical consequences of this theoretical enquiry.
Pikhart Marcel
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Travel and “Homing In” in Contemporary Ethnic American Short Stories [PDF]

, 2012
In American ethnic literature of the last three decades of the 20th century, recurrent themes of mobility, travel, and “homing in” are emblematic of the search for identity. In this essay, which discusses three short stories, Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,
Maszewska Jadwiga
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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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The Tension and Intersection between my Personal and Professional Identities as an Egyptian, Muslim Woman

Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2016
In this autoethnography I connect my personal experience as an Egyptian, Muslim Woman and my professional experience as an Educator to the complex intercultural context in which I found myself (Ellis & Bochner, 2000).
Maysaa Barakat
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“We Have Come to Offer Something Which (They) Were Not Even Looking for”: U.S. Christian Conservative Evangelical Faith Missions in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
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Communal sustainable development goals, belonging and involvement: Engaging with the SDGs

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 445-460, February 2026.
Abstract This study examines sustainable development from the cosmovisions of Indigenous Peoples and other Traditional Communities (IoTCs) in western Bahia, a region in the Brazilian savanna of the Cerrado. It adopts a feminist decolonial and post‐development approach to address issues of epistemic violence. Employing participatory arts‐based research,
Taís Sonetti‐González, Ana Paula Dutra de Aguiar, Fernanda de Henn, Luciana F. C. Ferreira da Silva, Dentina Cruz da Silva, María Mancilla García, Mairon G. Bastos Lima   +6 more
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Evaluating Citizen Participation: A Proposal for Multivariate Analysis of Its Potential and Obstacles From Development Interventions

Review of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 32-47, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Citizen participation in public policy and development projects has gained critical importance, particularly in the context of international cooperation. This paper introduces the Citizen Participation Index (CitPI), a novel tool designed to measure the capacity of citizen participation to influence public policies effectively.
Luciano Barbosa de Lima, Pablo Podadera Rivera   +1 more
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Teacher training in intercultural bilingual education in Guatemala: a tool for critical decolonization?

Oxímora. Revista Internacional de Ética y Política
This article offers a critical appraisal of the status of intercultural bilingual education in Guatemala, known as Educación Bilingüe Intercultural (EBI).
Giulia Cardani
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Academic style and format of doctoral theses: The case of the disappearing discussion chapter [PDF]

Ibérica, 2010
This article describes work carried out within the sphere of analysis of university academic discourse that possibly contains an intercultural comparative element.
Elaine Hewitt, Ángel Felices Lago
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