LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN INTERACTION: COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN AND PRAGMATIC FAILURE

Quang Nguyen

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In this article, research approaches (contrastive or cross-cultural, interactive or intercultural, and interlanguage) to communication between interactants with different cultural backgrounds are presented. Hypothesis of ‘why miscommunication and communication breakdown?’ is given. Pragmatic failure with mismatch and asymmetry is categorised, grouped and analysed.

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