Teaching American Business Writing in Russia
This article describes the writer's experiences teaching American business writing in Russia and attempting to find documents for comparison of Russian and American approaches to business communication. She discovered that most documents common in the United States are rare or nonexistent in Ka...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1050651998012001006 2023-05-15T17:01:01+02:00 Teaching American Business Writing in Russia Cross-Cultures/Cross-Purposes HAGEN, PATRICIA 1998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1050651998012001006 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1050651998012001006 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Business and Technical Communication volume 12, issue 1, page 109-126 ISSN 1050-6519 1552-4574 General Business, Management and Accounting Communication Business and International Management journal-article 1998 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651998012001006 2022-04-14T04:49:32Z This article describes the writer's experiences teaching American business writing in Russia and attempting to find documents for comparison of Russian and American approaches to business communication. She discovered that most documents common in the United States are rare or nonexistent in Karelia, where in many ways organizational culture is oral culture; documents exist largely to show to officials rather than to communicate with customers, clients, superiors, or subordinates. Although Hall's model of high-context communication accounts for some cultural differences between Americans and Russians, it is important to note the differences between Russians operating in official mode and in personal mode to understand the amount of explicitness and directness appropriate in various situations. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelia* SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Journal of Business and Technical Communication 12 1 109 126 |
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This article describes the writer's experiences teaching American business writing in Russia and attempting to find documents for comparison of Russian and American approaches to business communication. She discovered that most documents common in the United States are rare or nonexistent in Karelia, where in many ways organizational culture is oral culture; documents exist largely to show to officials rather than to communicate with customers, clients, superiors, or subordinates. Although Hall's model of high-context communication accounts for some cultural differences between Americans and Russians, it is important to note the differences between Russians operating in official mode and in personal mode to understand the amount of explicitness and directness appropriate in various situations. |
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