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Introduction

The sociolinguistic approach

The feminist approach

Internationalism, however, rejects both determinacy of form and determinacy of meaning. An internationalist, rather, considers the contextualized totality of the communicative experience, which necessarily entails considering the linguistic and non-linguistic as interrelated aspects of the situation, along with the assumptions the participants make about their own others’ intentions. – 288