The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1356-3289.htm Silence during intercultural communication: a case study Misa Fujio Tokyo Fuji University‚ Tokyo‚ Japan Keywords Communication‚ Cross-cultural management‚ Languages‚ United States of America‚ Japan Abstract This is a case study of USA-Japan intercultural communication‚ analyzing
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many people as possible will be able to afford them” As one of the leading retailers in a global scale IKEA is engaged in systematic environmental monitoring and analysis which serves to be an effective source of information for decision-making. Internal benchmarking is one of the main methods of environmental monitoring and analysis engaged in by IKEA. Benchmarking is “method of improving business performance by learning from other companies how to do things better in order to be the ‘best in the
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the use of extra diegetic sound. By doing this the viewer is left with silence. This is something that the audience is not used to experiencing. Horror films have been known to capitalize on the use of silence‚ but never to this extent. Generally‚ horror films use silence only to follow it with something comparable to a blood-curdling scream. However‚ Caché defied the rule. It had silence‚ after silence‚ after silence always leaving the audience waiting on the edge of their seat‚ never validating
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Silence Speaks Louder than Words: How to Communicate about CSR Engagement Effectively A Case Study of Noir Authors: Lea Tae-Mee Søndergaard Nielsen (282853) Gro Anna Haldrup Skovbjerg (282834) Supervisor: Michael Hübertz Characters: 98.895 Date: May 5th 2010 BA in Marketing and Management Communication Aarhus School of Business 1 Executive Summary This thesis seeks to shed light on the challenges companies
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mysteries of "A Lamb To A Slaughter" and "The Speckled Band"? Roald Dahl wrote Lamb to the slaughter in 1954‚ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Speckled Band in 1892‚ that is around 62 yrs apart which would make the stories slightly different to each other because they were wrote in two different centuries. Roald Dahl was born in 1916 and died in 1990‚ Roald Dahl was most famous for writing children stories but he did also write some books for adults like the tales of the unexpected which lamb to the slaughter
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CHANGES—AN ANALYSIS OF TUPAC Historians and cultural critics trace the post-modernist hip hop movement which pioneered sampling and graffiti art to the 1970′s‚ New York‚ a movement rooted in the black nationalism of the black panthers post civil rights movement (Price‚ 2006). Hip Hop has become a dominant global youth culture with music‚ art‚ fashion‚ films and Tupac an icon within this culture a “Black Elvis”. Hip Hop has many different sub genres such as conscious‚ gangsta‚ party rap and with
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815‚ p=0.004) between pleasant music and silence at without task performance (Task 1). Figure 4.20 shows that the mean heart rate was less (74 beats/min) while listening to pleasant music when compared to silence (78.4 beats/min). The mean heart rate was significantly different (Z=-2.823‚ p=0.005) between unpleasant music and silence at Task 1. The mean heart rate was significantly high for unpleasant music listeners as compared to participants in silence mode. Under task performance (Task 2)‚ the
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Topic: How does zee edgell’s writing portray the cultural social and political life of a Belizean Society? In the novel Beka Lamb‚ written by Zee Edgell‚ her writing portrays all the cultural‚ social and political aspects of Belizean people. In her writing‚ she uniquely characterizes Belizean people by their traditional activities‚ their supportive and caring nature towards each other and their views on the government. Zee Edgell describes the cultural aspect of Belize by stating that Saturday
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In “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl‚ Desiree Valmonde and Mary Maloney are two smitten housewives living in two different eras of time; Desiree lives in the time of slavery while Mary seems to live around the ‘50s. Although there are years in time difference‚ both women are willing to wait on hand and foot for their husbands. Neither give their husbands a true reason to break off the relationship yet both husbands do. While Desiree and Mary go through radical
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Language and Gender in ‘Lamb to Slaughter’ – Roald Dahl There is a variety of how men and women use language‚ which could range from their use of body language‚ tone‚ personality‚ and human relationships‚ emotions. Roald Dahl portrays this in the novel‚ Lamb to the Slaughter in which the relationship between men and women can be complicated and this is described between a husband and wife. In Lamb to slaughter‚ the writer has intended to portray a tensional situation between Mrs. And Mr. Maloney
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