Norwegians impolite? Forget it!
Norwegians don’t smile to people on the bus or ask strangers how they are doing. Very impolite, say some. ‘We leave people alone. That is Norwegian politeness,’ says NHH researcher Kristin Rygg.
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Recent publications
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co-authors: Fløttum, Kjersti and Rivenes, Vegard |
Young Norwegians and their views on climate change and the future: findings from a climate concerned and oil-rich nation
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Journal of Youth Studies 2016, 19 (8), 1128-1143
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Conflict talk and ELF communities of practice |
In: Holmes, P. and Dervin, F. (eds.) The cultural and intercultural dimensions of English as a lingua franca, 2016, 114–133, Multilingual Matters |
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Internal e-mail communication in the workplace: Is there an “East-West divide”? |
Intercultural Pragmatics 2016, 13 (1), 37-70 |
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Challenges of teaching intercultural business communication in times of turbulence |
In: Dervin, F. and Gross, Z. (eds.) Intercultural Competence: Alternative Approaches for Today´s Education, 2016, 215-236, Palgrave McMillan |
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Was Malinowski Norwegian? |
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Semi-lexical features in corpus transcription: Consistency, comparability, standardisation |
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2016, 21(3), 323-347 |
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Compilation, transcription, markup and annotation of spoken corpora |
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2016, 21(3), 291-298 |
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Using the corpus-driven method to chart discourse-pragmatic change |
In: Pichler, Heike (ed.) Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in English: New methods and insights, 2016, 21-40, Cambridge University Press |
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co-author: Lyse, Gunn Inger |
Exploring an environmental neologism in Norwegian across corpora |
Neologica 2016, 10, 39-57 |
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Auf den Spuren des Wissenssystems Recht als Voraussetzung für adäquate Übersetzungen
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In: Kalverkämper, Hartwig (Hg.) Fachkommunikation im Fokus - Paradigmen, Positionen, Perspektiven, 2016, 609-631, Frank & Timme |