Intercultural Communication
An Advanced Resource Book
Price: $135.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-27060-1
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 24th June 2004
- Pages: 256
- Illustrations: 10 tables
About the Book
Intercultural Communication:
- introduces the key theories of intercultural communication
- explores ways in which people communicate within and across social groups
- is built around three themes – identity, otherization and representation – which are followed and developed over the book's three sections
- gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: James Paul Gee, James P. Lantolf, Les Back, Richard Dyer, Jacques Derrida, and Alastair Pennycook.
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Reviews
'This book is a useful reminder that culture is constructed, perpetuated and changed through small acts of communication in everyday life. It offers a clear, practical methodology for escaping the essentialization of people, behaviors and events ... Most enjoyable are the illustrative anecdotes of intercultural (mis)communication presented for analysis and interpretation.' – Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Table of Contents
Section A: Introduction 1: Identity Unit 1: People Like me Unit 2: Artefacts of Culture Unit 3: Identity Card 2. Otherization Unit 4: Communication is About not Presuming Unit 5: Cultural Dealing Unit 6: Power and Language 3. Representation Unit 7: Cultural Refugee Unit 8: Complex Images Disciplines for Intercultural Communication Section B: Extension Unit 1: 'Culture' and 'Community' in Everyday Discourse Unit 2: 'Culture': Definitions and Perspectives 1: Identity Unit 3: - Identity as a Personal Project Unit 4: Globalization and Identity Unit 5:Discourse, Identity, and Culture Unit 6: Identity and Language Learning Unit 7: Identity, Community and the Internet 2: Otherization Unit 8: Otherization: Focus on Japan Unit 9: Images of the Other: 'Listen to the Image Speak' Unit 10: Absence and Invisibility in Otherization White Unit 11: The Other and the Tourist Gaze Unit 12: 'Undemonizing' 3: Representation Unit 13: Representation in the Mass Media: The Case of 'Asylum Seekers' Unit 14: Representation: Sport and Stereotyping in the Mass Media Unit 15: The Representation of Identity: Personality and its Social Construction Unit 16: Cultural Constructs Individualism and Collectivism Section C: Exploration 1: Identity Unit 1: The Story of the Self Unit 2: Becoming the Self Through Defining the Other Unit 3: Undoing Cultural Fundamentalism Unit 4: Investigating Discourse and Power Unit 5: Locality and Transcendence of Locality: Factors in Identity Formation 2: Otherization Unit 6: Otherization Unit 7: As you Speak Therefore you Are Unit 8: The 'Located' S