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...family dinner this request would be phrased differently. This is one of the main difficulties in intercultural communication. In an unfamiliar setting, it can be tricky to navigate what behaviour is found appropriate because the rules are not fixed. It is important to find the right degree of politeness to avoid offending someone. The importance of situated language use...

...family came originally from the urban Midlands of England where Anne had lived all her life until she and her husband decided to move to a village in the rural South West. She came from a close-knit family where she was accustomed to visiting parents, grandparents and sisters regularly and, despite close family ties and an established pattern of life, Anne and her husband...

...family, or a workplace culture – and created the term ‘socio-constructionism’. He believed that an individual’s learning and development depend on interaction with others, and that a culture provides individuals with ‘tools of the mind’ – ways of thinking – to help them form a view of the world. The research of Hodkinson and Hodkinson (2004) focuses on...