“Let Them Eat Cake!” or how to Avoid Losing Your Head in Cross-Cultural Conversations

Young, Richard; Halleck, Gene B.

doi:10.1075/sibil.14.19you

In:Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency
Edited by Richard Young and Agnes Weiyun He
[Studies in Bilingualism 14] 1998
► pp. 355–382

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“Let Them Eat Cake!” or how to Avoid Losing Your Head in Cross-Cultural Conversations

Richard Young

Gene B. Halleck

Published online: 15 July 1998

https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.14.19you

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