"Feil oversettelse kan bli dyrt"
Read new article by Claudia Förster Hegrenæs and Ingrid Simonnæs published in Bergens Tidende 8 July. In Norwegian.
Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication
Language skills and cultural understanding are increasingly important in a globalised world.
NHH is proud of its leading academic environment for research and teaching in the field of language for special purposes (LSP) and intercultural communication, in particular professional language within the fields of economics and business administration.
The department carries out research and offers courses in language and communication in English, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian and Spanish. This website provides useful information for language researchers, students and staff as well as prospective candidates for the National Translator Accreditation Exam.
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Research News
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.
Language in free trade agreements
On Friday 3 February 2017 Pedro Patiño Garcia will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend his thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Communication in global companies
On Friday 9 September 2016 Annelise Ly will hold a trial lecture on a prescribed topic and defend her thesis for the PhD degree at NHH.
Recent publications
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Madsen Sandvik, Alexander; |
The recontextualisation of values in the multilingual workplace |
Corporate communications: An international journal, 22, 3, 401–416, 2017 |
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Trine Dahl, Kjersti Fløttum
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Discourse, Context & Media Volume 20; page 124 - 131; 2017 |
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A corpus study of pragmatic adaptation: The case of the Anglicism [ jobb] in Norwegian |
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‘Typically Norwegian to be impolite.’ Impoliteness according to whom? |
FLEKS - Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and practice Volume 4 (1); 2017 |
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Journal of Pragmatics Volume 113; page 71 - 76; 2017 |
