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Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the cultural dimensions of conflict resolution. Books, numerous studies, and courses have offered perspectives on the nature of culture and its complex relationship to the transformation of conflict. This article focuses on metaphors concerning negotiations across cultures. The study attempts to contribute knowledge in the field of cross-cultural studies on language and culture, especially with regards to negotiation metaphors. The article attempts to answer a question how does the usage of metaphors for the process of negotiation differ across cultures

Conceptual negotiation metaphors across cultures – research findings from Poland, China, The United States and Great Britain

University of Social Sciences Lodz, Poland

Journal of Intercultural Management

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Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the cultural dimensions of conflict resolution. Books, numerous studies, and courses have offered...

Conceptual negotiation metaphors across cultures – research findings from Poland, China, The United States and Great Britain

Published Online: Apr 25, 2014

Page range: 103 - 118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/joim-2013-0022

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This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.