Blue paint and white underwear: miscommunication and humour in intercultural contexts. (2016)
Book Chapter
Victoria, M. (2016). Blue paint and white underwear: miscommunication and humour in intercultural contexts. In J. N. Singh, A. Kantara, & D. Cserző (Eds.), Downscaling Culture: Revisiting Intercultural Communication (92-113). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

When two individuals from different cultural backgrounds fail to achieve mutual understanding, the accusatory finger is almost always automatically pointed at ‘cultural difference’. Indeed it is a commonly held notion that interactions between speake... Read More about Blue paint and white underwear: miscommunication and humour in intercultural contexts..

Turning Miscommunication Events into Opportunities for Developing Interactional Competence (2012)
Journal Article
Victoria, M. (2012). Turning Miscommunication Events into Opportunities for Developing Interactional Competence. Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 38(1), 143-163

Many studies have explored the difficulties faced by foreign language learners when they begin the learning journey from survival to advanced level. Most of these investigations, however, tend to focus on what makes the road to fluency strewn with ob... Read More about Turning Miscommunication Events into Opportunities for Developing Interactional Competence.