natallman's intercultural-rhetoric [2 articles]

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Summary Explores how and why the German and Chinese cultures differ in the presentation and perception of technical informationPresents a theoretical framework for technical communication across different culturesProvides guidelines to technical communicators in Sino-German technical communication and services ...

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This article reports a case study of three multinational companies that work together in a consortium, focusing on intercompany and intracompany variation in writing products and processes. The authors discuss variation in two genres: meeting minutes and internal memos. Adopting a social constructionist, communities of practice (CofP) approach, they argue that the companies form overarching constellations of CofP. Although the participants broadly work with the same genres of written documents, the form of these documents varies according to the local context, ...