%0 Journal Article
%T Communicative Fiasco as a Cross-cultural Phenomenon (on the material of the novel  Twelve Stories of Russia: a Novel, I guess  by A.J. Perry)
%A Olga M. Verbitskaya
%J European Researcher
%D 2012
%I European Researcher
%X The proposed article introduces the problem of communicative fiasco that occurs in the process of cross-cultural communication, makes insight into the issue. In the research the author makes an attempt to reveal the reasons of verbal communicative breakdowns with the consideration of non-verbal factors. The analysis allows to single out such ¡°areas¡± in which failures and conflicts are most likely to emerge in the process of cross-cultural interaction. The following work has both a theoretical and practical value for teachers of English as a foreign language and for all those who are interested in the problems of intercultural communication.
%K communicative fiasco
%K intercultural communication
%K cultural stereotypes
%K communicative competence
%K communicative errors
%K ethnocentrism
%K culture shock
%K acculturation
%U http://erjournal.ru/journals_n/1329308151.pdf