PhD defence: Olga Rykov Ibsen

In order to obtain the PhD degree, Olga Rykov Ibsen has submitted her thesis entitled: An empirical cross-linguistic study of directives A semiotic approach to the sentence forms chosen by British, Danish and Russian speakers in native and ELF contexts

Friday, August 26, 2016 - 10:00 to 12:00

This doctoral research investigates the effectiveness of intercultural business communication via English as a Lingua Franca by studying speech production in the form of directives.

By doing a cross-linguistic analysis of the data consisting of directives produced by British, Russian, and Danish speakers in their native language and English, Olga found that when making requests people engage in a problem-solving activity.

Her findings suggest that Russians and Danes use different problem-solving strategies in English from those employed by the native speakers of English. Moreover, her analysis revealed several important direct and indirect transfers from Russian to Russian-English, which she believes can have a negative effect on the effectiveness of intercultural communication via ELF.
 
Supervisor:
Professor Per Durst-Andersen
Department of International Business Communication
Copenhagen Business School
 
Secondary supervisor:
Professor MSO  Søren Brier
Department of International Business Communication
Copenhagen Business School
 
Assessment Committee:
Professor Anne Marie Bülow (Chair)
Department of Internatiol Business Communication
Copenhagen Business School
 
Professor Paul Cobley
Media and Performing Arts
Middlesex University London
 
Professor Dina Nikulicheva
Institute of Nordic languages
National Linguistic University of Moscow
 
Thesis:
The thesis is available here.
 
Reception:
The Doctoral School of Language, Law, Informatics, Operations Management, Accounting and Culture will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence  in DH 2V.071.
 

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