MULTILINGUAL MEDIATION AND PRAGMATIC ADAPTATION IN INTERCULTURAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION TRAINING

e article substantiates a methodology for developing multilingual mediation and pragmatic adaptation as interrelated skills of future managers. The problem is that translation, terminology work, and business correspondence are often assessed primarily for linguistic correctness, whereas semantic equivalence, tone, degree of directness, audience, genre, and commu- nicative consequences receive less attention. The study aims to define the operations of mediation and adaptation and design a didactic model for their development in foreign-language training. The methods included theoretical analysis, structural-com- ponent modeling, pragmatic analysis of professional messages, and pedagogical task design. Multilingual mediation is concep- tualized as explaining, rephrasing, bilingual summarising, clarifying terminology, neutrally representing positions, and estab- lishing shared meaning. Pragmatic adaptation is defined as changing tone, directness, formality, detail, structure, and linguistic resources according to recipient, purpose, channel, and status relations without distorting professional content. A six-step cycle is proposed: recognize, compare, explain, adapt, verify, and justify. The article presents a task set based on a misunderstanding about an international project deadline: comparison of a Ukrainian source message, machine translation, and an AI-generated version; development of a terminology table; preparation of internal and external message versions; a mediation note; and a revision log. Assessment criteria cover semantic accuracy, pragmatic appropriateness, neutrality, terminological consistency, and accountability for digitally mediated text. The proposed methodology treats multilingual resources not as signs of language deficiency but as instruments for professional reasoning, coordination, and risk reduction.