No 13 (2019)

Negotiating Meaning in Business English as a Lingua Franca

Edited by Alessia Cogo and Paola Vettorel

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction
Alessia Cogo, Paola Vettorel
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Articles: Special Section

Investigating Communities of Practice (CoPs) and Transient International Groups (TIGs) in BELF Contexts
Marie-Luise Pitzl
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Meaning Negotiation and Customer Engagement in a Digital BELF Setting: a Study Of Instagram Company Interactions
Marie-Louise Brunner, Stefan Diemer
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Cultural Knowledge as A Resource in BELF Interactions: A Longitudinal Ethnographic Study of Two Managers in Global Business
Tiina Räisänen
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Introducing Business Presentations to Non-Native Speakers of English: Communication Strategies and Intercultural Awareness
Juan Carlos Palmer Silveira
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Enhancing Explicitness in BELF Interactions: Self-Initiated Communication Strategies in the Workplace
Valeria Franceschi
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BELF, Communication Strategies and ELT Business Materials
Paola Vettorel
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The Training of Business Professionals in ELT Materials: a Focus on Email Writing
Paola Caleffi, Franca Poppi
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Reviews - special section

English as a Lingua Franca in International Business: Resolving Miscommunication and Reaching Shared Understanding. Marie-Luise Pitzl
Monica Antonello
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Global Interactions in English as a Lingua Franca. How Written Communication is Changing under the Influence of Electronic Media and New Contexts of Use. Franca Poppi
Marco Bagni
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The Use of English in Institutional and Business Settings. An Intercultural Perspective. A cura di Giuliana Garzone e Cornelia Ilie
Sebastian Malinowski
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Intercultural and International Business Communication. Theory, Research and Teaching. A cura di Juan Carlos Palmer-Silveira, Miguel F. Ruiz-Garrido e Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
Dora Renna
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English in Business and Commerce: Interaction and Policies; English in Europe Volume 5. A cura di Tamah Sherman e Jiří Nekvapil
Shwanea Sum Pok Ting
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Articles (general section) - English language and linguistics

Geography of a Stereotype: A Computational Study on the Italian Presence in the British Nineteenth Century Novel
Federica Perazzini
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Articles (general section) - British and Postcolonial literatures in English

The Gorgon’s Head: On Narration, Torture and Truth-Seeking in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and in the South African TNC’s History-Writing and Restorative Undertaking
Susanna Zinato
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Articles (general section) - American language, literature, and culture

Packhorse Purgatory
Chris Eagle
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Are Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce the Inventors of the American "Anti-War" Story?
Giorgio Mariani
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The Crisis of the Social Realist Novel in the United States: The "Tragic" Case of Jonathan Franzen's Strong Motion
Simona Porro
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Reviews

Confini porosi. Pelle e rappresentazione in quattro narrazioni della modernità. Serena Fusco
Elisa Bordin
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Mondi e modi della traduzione. A cura di Stefano Rosso e Marina Dossena
Valeria Franceschi
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Visible/Invisible. Incursioni nella narrativa italiana americana contemporanea. Carla Francellini
Enrico Mariani
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Ácoma — uomini e macchine
Beatrice Melodia Festa
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The Insuperability of Sensation. Indagini letterarie tra mente, corpo e affect. Pilar Martinez Benedì
Valentina Romanzi
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Il cibo come cultura. Dialoghi Interdisciplinari. A cura di Linda Avesani, Chiara Battisti, Sidia Fiorato e Giovanna Felis
Anna Enrichetta Soccio
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