Intercultural communication in the new era Third Annual Language
and Society Centre Lecture Presented in 2010 by Professor Farzad
Sharifian, Director, Language and Society Centre, Monash
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(29.3 MB) Studies of intercultural communication gathered
momentum in applied linguistics during the 1980s. The bulk of
such studies focused on miscommunication, mainly between native
and non-native speakers of English. The contexts for studies of
intercultural communication were generally places such as
workplace and business meetings. Most studies focused on face-
to-face interactions, but some investigated telephone
conversations. The advent of the 21st