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Brigitte Planken
Researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen
Publications - 60
Citations - 1277
Brigitte Planken is an academic researcher from Radboud University Nijmegen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Business communication & Corporate social responsibility. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 59 publications receiving 1174 citations.
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Age and ultimate attainment in the pronunciation of a foreign language
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.
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BELF competence as business knowledge of internationally operating business professionals
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.
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Managing rapport in lingua franca sales negotiations: A comparison of professional and aspiring negotiators
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.
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What is Business Discourse
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.
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The effects of the use of English in Polish product advertisements: Implications for English for business purposes
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.