Critical review on telephone conversation in Greek and German
attending to the relationship aspect of communication
Keywords:
Conversation, Cross-cultural, German, Greek, TelephoneAbstract
The research was intended at focusing on how German and Greek ways of opening and closing the conversation on telephone calls attending to the relationship aspect of communication. This study as well to know how to counteract a possible intrusion through the telephone call and how to terminate the call without causing and bad feeling.
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