Intercultural Communication and Intelligibility in English

What is it about?

This article reviews intelligibility in English in relation to its relevance to intercultural communication in a new millenium beset by the contradictory global tensions of homogeneity and fragmentation.

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Why is it important?

It argues that intelligibility has to be re-examined in relation to the forces of globalisation that push towards intercultural communication in the sites of the world's multiple Englishes by presenting evidence from the localised and the globalised workplace that demonstrates this phenomenon.