Research Catalog

Title

The handbook of intercultural discourse and communication / edited by Christina Bratt Paulston, Scott F. Kiesling, and Elizabeth S. Rangel.

Publication

Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Paulston, Christina Bratt, 1932-
• Kiesling, Scott F.
• Rangel, Elizabeth S.

Description

xix, 531 pages; 26 cm.

Summary

Intercultural discourse and communication is emerging as an important area of research in a highly globalized and connected world, where language and culture contact is frequent and cultural misunderstandings and misconceptions abound. The handbook contains contributions from established scholars and up-and-coming researchers from a range of subfields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work in this burgeoning area of linguistics. This timely volume features first a part that introduces the background detailing the scope and topics of the field, ; followed by one that describes four different theoretical approaches and their basic research questions, from Ethnography of Speaking and John Gumperz's Interactional Sociolinguistics to Critical Approaches and Postmodernism. The third part, "Interactional Discourse Features," describes and explains the features of talk that are frequently studied in cross-cultural research, such as turn-taking and politeness. The volume also includes a section on Interactional Discourse sites, examining cross-cultural communication (such as Greek-Turkish discourse). The final part considers a variety of domains in which interaction takes place, such as Translation, Business, Law, Medicine, Education, and Religion.

Series Statement

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Uniform Title

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.

Subjects

• Intercultural communication
• Identity (Psychology)
• Intercultural communication > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Handbooks and manuals

Genre/Form

Handbooks and manuals.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Intercultural communication : an overview / Ingrid Piller -- Perspectives on intercultural discourse and communication / Leila Monaghan -- Cultures and languages in contact : towards a typology / John Edwards -- Interactional sociolinguistics : perspectives on intercultural communication / John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumprez -- Ethnography of speaking / Scott F. Kiesling -- Critical approaches to intercultural discourse and communication / Ryuko Kubota -- Postmodernism and intercultural discourse : world Englishes / Suresh Canagarajah -- Turn-taking and intercultural discourse and communication / Deborah Tannen -- Silence / Ikuko Nakane -- Indirectness / Michael Lempert -- Politeness in intercultural discourse and communication / Janet Holmes -- Anglo-Arab intercultural communication / Eirlys E. Davies and Abdelali Bentahila -- Japan/Angle-American cross-cultural communication / Steven Brown, Brenda Hayashi, and Kikue Yamamoto -- "Those Venezuelans are so easy-going!" National stereotypes and self-representations in discourse about the other / Lars Fant -- "Face," stereotyping, and claims of power : the Greeks and Turks in interaction / Maria Sifianou and Arin Bayraktarglu -- Intercultural communication and vocational language learning in South Africa : law and healthcare / Russell H. Kaschula and Pamela Maseko -- Indigenous-Mestizo interaction in Mexico / Rocio Fuentes -- Translation and intercultural communication: bridges and barriers / Eiryls E. Davies -- Cultural differences in business communication / John Hooker -- Intercultural communication in the law / Diana Eades -- Medicine / Claudia V. Angelelli -- Intercultural discourse and communication in education / Amanda J. Godley -- Religion as a domain of intercultural discourse / Jonathan M. Watt.

ISBN

• 9781405162722
• 1405162724

LCCN

2011026132

OCLC

• ocn732967833
• 732967833
• SCSB-9479674

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries