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WILLIAMSON Josef Faculty of Business Administration Department of Business Management Associate Professor

■ Title
Discordant discourse styles in the decision-making meetings of Japanese English speakers and native English speakers

■ Outline
  Business meetings are superficially alike all over the world. Yet under the surface they show fundamental discursive differences that align with the specific cultures in which they occur (Aritz and Walker, 2014). A lack of awareness of these differences within the context of an intercultural meeting can potentially impact group rapport and meeting effectiveness. This paper compares the discursive behaviour of groups of Japanese English speakers and groups of native English speakers participating in decision-making meetings and concludes that there are notable and discordant differences across the two groups in terms how discourse is framed, how speaking turns are achieved and how conflict is resolved.
  Mergel. Edward
  Collaboration   Daito Bunka University Kiyo   Daito Bunka University   56,pp.67   2018