Intercultural Communication - Doc

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Intercultural Communication - Doc

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Summary of the Paper The paper seeks to study the variance in speech act of complaint in a migration context of Italo-Australians, Anglo-Italians, and Italians.Rubino (2011) maintains that less attention has been granted to pragmatic language transfer from the host to the migrant language.The current study was propelled by the fact that studying the impact of host language on the pragmatics of migrant language may prove to be problematic.Conducting studies in the migrant country can be challenging considering that an excellent examination of pragmatic behavioral changes can only be conducted in the home nation (Mahler & Pessar, 2006).

Summary of the Paper Cont’The interaction between the natives and migrants is often characterized by prejudice and misunderstandings thus causing conflicts (Ting-Toomey & Chung, 2005).The gap identified by the author is insufficient information concerning complaints handling in a cross-cultural perspective considering that Australia contains people from different parts of the world (Syed & Pio, 2010).In brief, this study specifically examines the complaints of Anglo-Australians and Italians in Australia and relates them to the same scenario of Italians in Italy.

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