Brigitte Planken

TL;DR: The authors reported on two studies that addressed the issue of ultimate attainment by late learners of Dutch second language learners, including a carefully screened group of highly successful Dutch learners of English in their designs, to determine whether or not late learners who achieved a nativelike performance in the pronunciation of a second language could be identified.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore internationally operating business professionals' perceptions of business English as a lingua franca (BELF) communication and its "success" at work, based on selected data from an online survey (N = 987) and in-depth interviews conducted in European multinational companies.

TL;DR: Spencer-Oatey et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated how facework is used to achieve interpersonal goals in intercultural sales negotiations and found that professionals frequently initiate safe talk throughout their negotiations, aspiring negotiators engage in safe talk sporadically, and only in the initial and final stages of a negotiation.

TL;DR: A brief overview of the historical development of business discourse with a number of landmark studies can be found in this article, where the authors define business discourse as it will be referred to in the rest of this book and give a geographical and disciplinary overview of how business discourse has evolved around the world.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of English in advertisements from Polish glossy magazines on their audience, young educated Polish women, and found that the use of English did not bring about a significant difference in purchasing intentions, and led to only few statistically significant differences in comprehension.