Language is key to understanding culture, and culture is an essential part of studying language. This reader focuses on the interplay between Language and Intercultural Communication. Divided into six parts, the Reader covers: Culture, language and thought; Cultural approaches to discourse and pragmatics; Communication patterns across cultures; Teaching and learning cultural variations of language use; Interculturality and Intercultural Communication in professional contexts. With 22 readings from eminent authorities in the field as well as cutting-edge materials representing current...
Language is key to understanding culture, and culture is an essential part of studying language. This reader focuses on the interplay between Language...
For many years, studies of the development of pragmatic and discourse skills in young children have predominantly focused on English and other European languages, as with the field of child language development in general. This volume, originally published in Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1 (2012), brings together a team of researchers from China, the UK, USA, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. It explores the development of pragmatic and discourse skills among Chinese-speaking children by investigating the development of pragmatic features specific to the Chinese language and culture...
For many years, studies of the development of pragmatic and discourse skills in young children have predominantly focused on English and other Europea...
This book generates a fresh, complex view of the process of globalization by examining how work, scholarship, and life inform each other among intercultural scholars as they navigate their interpersonal relationships and cross boundaries physically and metaphorically. Divided into three parts, the book examines: (1) the socio-psychological process of crossing boundaries constructed around nations and work organizations; (2) the negotiation of multiple aspects of identities; and (3) the role of language in intercultural encounters, in particular, adjustment taking place at linguistic and...
This book generates a fresh, complex view of the process of globalization by examining how work, scholarship, and life inform each other among inte...
Research Methods in Intercultural Communication introduces and contextualizes the most important methodological issues in the field for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Examples of these issues are which paradigms and how to research multilingually, interculturally and ethnically.
Provides the first dedicated and most comprehensive volume on research methods in intercultural communication research in the last 30 years
Explains new and emerging methods, as well as more established ones. These include: Matched Guise Technique, Discourse Completion Task,...
Research Methods in Intercultural Communication introduces and contextualizes the most important methodological issues in the field for upper-level...
