Subject: Languages and literature
Year: 2026
Type: Conference or Workshop Item
Type: PeerReviewed
Title: Intercultural Communication and Misunderstanding: Pragmatic Mismatches in Academia
Author: Jankova Alagjozovska, Natka
Abstract: In today’s globalized universities, students and professors are from different cultural backgrounds. Academic English is the shared code but the pragmatic norms very across cultures. This study explores how students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds communicate with professors through email. Using a scenario-based questionnaire, we examine the pragmatic strategies, politeness conventions, and levels of directness that students naturally apply when composing academic emails. The goal is not to judge any style as correct or incorrect, but to understand how cultural norms shape the way we communicate in academic settings and how these differences can lead to pragmatic mismatches.
Publisher:
Relation: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/38643/
Identifier: oai:eprints.ugd.edu.mk:38643
Identifier: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/38643/1/Intercultural%20communication%20in%20academia%20-%20%D0%BE%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4.pdfIdentifier: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/38643/2/Offizielles%20Programm%20%E2%80%93Ohrid.pdfIdentifier: Jankova Alagjozovska, Natka (2026) Intercultural Communication and Misunderstanding: Pragmatic Mismatches in Academia. In: Научно-стручен собир (состанок и сесија) на работна група за проект „Современи пристапи во истражувањето на интеркултурната прагматика и нивната примена во наставата по јазици – од научни концепти до практична имплементација.“, 26 - 28 Jun 2026, Ohrid, North Macedonia. (In Press)
