Books written by Helen Spencer-Oatey

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  Developing Global Leaders: Insights from African Case Studies

  Pailey concludes that Johnson Sirleaf on the one hand, succeeded in unsettling patriarchal structures by lowering Liberia's 'power distance' (Hofstede, 2001; House et al., 2004) thereby increasing her accessibility to average Liberian ...

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  Handbook of Intercultural Communication

  The Handbooks of Applied Linguistics series is based on an understanding of Applied Linguistics as an inter- and transdisciplinary field of academic enquiry.

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  Intercultural Politeness: Managing Relations across Cultures

  Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first book to systemise the processes by which we manage relations across cultures.

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  Culturally Speaking Second Edition: Culture, Communication and Politeness Theory

  The book includes: * introduction to the key issues in culture and communication * examination of cross-cultural and intercultural communication * empirical case studies from a variety of languages, including German, Greek, Japanese and ...

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  Culturally Speaking: Managing Rapport Through Talk Across Cultures

  Ting - Toomey , S. and Cocroft , B.-A. ( 1994 ) Face and facework : theoretical and research issues . In S. Ting - Toomey ( ed . ) , The Challenge of Facework . Albany : SUNY Press , 307–40 . Ting - Toomey , S. and Kurogi , A. ( 1998 ) ...

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  e-Learning Initiatives in China: Pedagogy, Policy and Culture

  The book is written in a clear and accessible style. Section 1, Background, introduces the book and provides an overview of e-learning in higher education in China.

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  Intercultural Politeness: Managing Relations across Cultures

  This is the first book to tackle this vital topic, by taking an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the process of relating across cultures.

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  Intercultural Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Intercultural Communication

  "Part 1 explores conceptual issues: the nature of culture and intercultural interaction competence; the impact of language and culture on understanding, rapport and impression management; cultural and adaptation processes.