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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    "occasional piece"; item written or composed for a special occasion. In French, it means "second-hand hardware." Can be shortened as pièce d'occas ' or even occas ' (pronounced /okaz/). portmanteau (pl. portmanteaux) In English, a portmanteau is a large piece of luggage for clothes that opens (like a book or a diptych) into two parts.

  3. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    French usually expresses negation in two parts, with the particle ne attached to the verb, and one or more negative words (connegatives) that modify the verb or one of its arguments. Negation encircles a conjugated verb with ne after the subject and the connegative after the verb, if the verb is finite or a gerund.

  4. Four-sides model - Wikipedia

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    The four-sides model (also known as communication square or four-ears model) is a communication model postulated in 1981 by German psychologist Friedemann Schulz von Thun. According to this model every message has four facets though not the same emphasis might be put on each.

  5. Two-way communication - Wikipedia

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    Meaning, two way communication is not as simple as one may infer. One can improve two-way or interpersonal communication by focusing on the eyes of the person speaking, making eye contact, watching body language, responding appropriately with comments, questions, and paraphrasing, and summarizing to confirm main points and an accurate ...

  6. Intercultural communication principles - Wikipedia

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    Inter-cultural communication principles guide the process of exchanging meaningful and unambiguous information across cultural boundaries, that preserves mutual respect and minimises antagonism. Intercultural communication can be defined simply by the communication between people from two different cultures. [1]

  7. Signified and signifier - Wikipedia

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    Saussure argued that the meaning of a sign "depends on its relation to other words within the system;" for example, to understand an individual word such as "tree," one must also understand the word "bush" and how the two relate to each other. [7] It is this difference from other signs that allows the possibility of a speech community.

  8. Precautionary principle - Wikipedia

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    The concept "precautionary principle" is generally considered to have arisen in English from a translation of the German term Vorsorgeprinzip in the 1970s in response to forest degradation and sea pollution, where German lawmakers adopted clean air act banning use of certain substances suspected in causing the environmental damage even though evidence of their impact was inconclusive at that ...

  9. Means of communication - Wikipedia

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    We use many different materials in communication. Maps, for example, save you tedious explanations on how to get to your destination. While these ways of communicating are also complex. A means of communication is therefore a means to an end to make communication between people easier, more understandable and, above all, clearer.