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Communication across cultures : mutual understanding in a global world / Heather Bowe, Kylie Martin and Howard Manns.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Melbourne, VIC : Cambridge University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Second editionDescription: xiv, 285 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107685147
  • 1107685141
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2 23
LOC classification:
  • P94.6 .B69 2014
Contents:
Chapter 1. Culture, communication and context -- Part I. Contextual Felicity across Cultures -- Chapter 2. Direct and indirect messages -- Chapter 3. Schema, face and politeness -- Chapter 4. Speech acts and politeness -- Part II. Structure and Contextual Update across Cultures -- Chapter 5. Conversation across cultures -- Chapter 6. Positioning the self: role, power and gender -- Chapter 7. Positioning the other: naming, address and honorifics -- Chapter 8. Cultural differences in writing -- Part III. Professional Communication across Cultures -- Chapter 9. Translating language and culture -- Chapter 10. Intercultural communication in the workplace -- Chapter 11. Successful intercultural communication.
Summary: "Communication across Cultures explores how cultural context affects the use and (mis)interpretation of language. It provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to language and language variation in intercultural communication by drawing on both classic and cutting-edge research from pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and politeness studies. This new edition has been comprehensively updated to incorporate recent research, with an emphasis on the fluid and emergent practice of intercultural communication. It provides increased coverage of variation in language within and between cultures, drawing on real-world examples of spoken and written communication. The authors review classic concepts like 'face', 'politeness' and 'speech acts', but also critique these concepts and introduce more recent approaches. Each chapter provides a set of suggested readings, questions and exercises to enable the student to work through concepts and consolidate their understanding of intercultural communication. This is an excellent resource for students of linguistics and related disciplines." -- Back cover
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-275) and index.

Chapter 1. Culture, communication and context -- Part I. Contextual Felicity across Cultures -- Chapter 2. Direct and indirect messages -- Chapter 3. Schema, face and politeness -- Chapter 4. Speech acts and politeness -- Part II. Structure and Contextual Update across Cultures -- Chapter 5. Conversation across cultures -- Chapter 6. Positioning the self: role, power and gender -- Chapter 7. Positioning the other: naming, address and honorifics -- Chapter 8. Cultural differences in writing -- Part III. Professional Communication across Cultures -- Chapter 9. Translating language and culture -- Chapter 10. Intercultural communication in the workplace -- Chapter 11. Successful intercultural communication.

"Communication across Cultures explores how cultural context affects the use and (mis)interpretation of language. It provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to language and language variation in intercultural communication by drawing on both classic and cutting-edge research from pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and politeness studies. This new edition has been comprehensively updated to incorporate recent research, with an emphasis on the fluid and emergent practice of intercultural communication. It provides increased coverage of variation in language within and between cultures, drawing on real-world examples of spoken and written communication. The authors review classic concepts like 'face', 'politeness' and 'speech acts', but also critique these concepts and introduce more recent approaches. Each chapter provides a set of suggested readings, questions and exercises to enable the student to work through concepts and consolidate their understanding of intercultural communication. This is an excellent resource for students of linguistics and related disciplines." -- Back cover

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