Bibliography on Cross-Cultural Communication

(This list prepared by Mardi Kidwell, mjk0@umail.ucsb.edu
and posted at various times on various listservs.)

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  39. Fetzer, Anita (1996) Preference organization and interactive language teaching. Communicative strategies in a German-English context. IRAL XXXIV/2, 77-93.****

  40. Fetzer, Anita (1996) Preference organization und Sprechfertigkeit im engl.-dt. Kontext. Vom propositionalen Schlagabtausch zur interkulturellen Kompetenz. GAL Bulletin, 24/2, 63-80.****

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  49. Fetzer, Anita .Negotiating rejections: a micro-cultural analysis. In Thije, Jan & Kristin Buehrig. eds. Beyond misunderstanding: the linguistic reconstruction of intercultural discourse. Forthcoming. ****

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(asterisks following references denote CA research)