Intercultural Conversation

Author : Winnie Cheng
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027253606
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Conversation written by Winnie Cheng and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study of naturally-occurring English conversations between Hong Kong Chinese and their native English friends and colleagues makes a worthwhile contribution to the research literature on intercultural conversation. Through analyzing dyadic intercultural conversations, the study investigates the ways in which culturally divergent conversationalists manage their organizational and interpersonal aspects of the unfolding conversations. The study focuses on five features of conversational interaction — disagreements, compliments and compliment responses, simultaneous talk, discourse topic management and discourse information structure — where cultural values and attitudes are particularly evident. For each of the features, hypotheses are formulated and tested through the detailed analysis of twenty-five intercultural conversations. This quantitative analysis is then followed by qualitative analysis of excerpts from the conversations to show the ways in which conversational interaction is performed and negotiated. The study shows in very revealing ways that intercultural conversations involve a complex, interactive and collaborative process of communication between the participants.

Author : A. Scott Moreau
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441245936
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effective Intercultural Communication (Encountering Mission) written by A. Scott Moreau and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the development of instantaneous global communication, it is vital to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. This addition to the acclaimed Encountering Mission series is designed to offer contemporary intercultural communication insights to mission students and practitioners. Authored by leading missionary scholars with significant intercultural experience, the book explores the cultural values that show up in intercultural communication and examines how we can communicate effectively in a new cultural setting. Features such as case studies, tables, figures, and sidebars are included, making the book useful for classrooms.

Author : Ingrid Piller
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474412939
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Communication written by Ingrid Piller and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, the second edition of this popular textbook provides students with an up-to-date overview of the field of intercultural communication. Ingrid Piller explains communication in context using two main approaches. The first treats cultural identity, difference and similarity as discursive constructions. The second, informed by bilingualism studies, highlights the use and prestige of different languages and language varieties as well as the varying access that speakers have to them.

Author : Mai Nguyen-Phuong-Mai
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048536510
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intercultural communication written by Mai Nguyen-Phuong-Mai and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to Intercultural Communication (IC) that takes into account the much neglected dynamic paradigm of culture in the literature. It posits that culture is not static, context is the driving force for change, and individuals can develop a multicultural mind. It is also the first IC textbook in the field that incorporates insight from evolutionary biology and the newly emerging discipline of cultural neurosciences. Such an interdisciplinary approach provides readers with new angles, encourages critical thinking, and sometimes challenges conventional knowledge in the field. The combination of the author's multicultural academic and journalistic background contributes to a balance of diverse perspectives and world views on cultural theories and discourses. The book is ideal for courses in Intercultural Communication with study cases, discussion topics and class activities.

Author : Peter D. Hershock
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082487658X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophies of Place written by Peter D. Hershock and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity takes up space. Human beings, like many other species, also transform spaces. What is perhaps uniquely human is the disposition to qualitatively transform spaces into places that are charged with distinctive kinds of intergenerational significance. There is a profound, felt difference between a house as domestic space and a home as familial place or between the summit of a mountain one has climbed for the first time and the “same” rock pinnacle celebrated in ancestral narratives. Contemporary philosophical uses of the word “place” often pivot on the distinction between “space” and “place” formalized by geographer-philosopher Yi-fu Tuan, who suggested that places incorporate the experiences and aspirations of a people over the course of their moral and aesthetic engagement with sites and locations. While spaces afford possibilities for different kinds of presence—physical, emotional, cognitive, dramatic, spiritual—places emerge as different ways of being present, fuse over time, and saturate a locale with distinctively collaborative patterns of significance. This approach to issues of place, however, is emblematic of what Edward S. Casey has argued are convictions about the primacy of absolute space and time that evolved along with the progressive dominance of the scientific imagination and modern imaginations of the universal. The recent reappearance of place in Western philosophy represents a turn away from abstract and a priori reasoning and back toward phenomenal experience and the primacy of embodied and emplaced intelligence. Places are enacted through the sustainably shared practices of mutually-responsive and mutually-vulnerable agents and are as numerous in kind as we are divergent in the patterns of values and intentions. The contributors to this volume draw on resources from Asian, European, and North American traditions of thought to engage in intercultural reflection on the significance of place in philosophy and of the place of philosophy itself in the cultural, social, economic, and political domains of contemporary life. The conversation of place that results explores the meaning of intercultural philosophy, the critical interplay of place and personal identity, the meaning of appropriate emplacement, the shared place of politics and religion, and the nature of the emotionally emplaced body.

Author : William B. Gudykunst
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761929000
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication written by William B. Gudykunst and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-04-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has the chapters from the Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication, Second Edition relating to the structure and growth of cross-cultural and intercultural communication. With an expanded forward by William Gudykunst it is an invaluable resource for students and lecturers of communications studies

Author : John R. Baldwin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444332368
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life written by John R. Baldwin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for students studying intercultural communication for the first time, this textbook gives a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts with a focus on practical application and social action. Provides a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts for beginning students with a focus on practical application and social action Defines “communication” broadly using authors from a variety of sub disciplines and incorporating scientific, humanistic, and critical theory Constructs a complex version of culture using examples from around the world that represent a variety of differences, including age, sex, race, religion, and sexual orientation Promotes civic engagement with cues toward individual intercultural effectiveness and giving back to the community in socially relevant ways Weaves pedagogy throughout the text with student-centered examples, text boxes, applications, critical thinking questions, a glossary of key terms, and online resources for students and instructors Online resources for students and instructors available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/baldwin

Author : James W. Neuliep
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506361854
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Communication written by James W. Neuliep and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fully updated Seventh Edition of Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, bestselling author James W. Neuliep provides a clear contextual model (visually depicted by a series of concentric circles) for examining communication within cultural, microcultural, environmental, sociorelational, and perceptual contexts. Students are first introduced to the broadest context—the cultural component of the model—and progress chapter by chapter through the model to the most specific dimensions of communication. Each chapter focuses on one context and explores the combination of factors within that context, including setting, situation, and circumstances. Highlighting values, ethnicity, physical geography, and attitudes, the book examines means of interaction, including body language, eye contact, and exchange of words, as well as the stages of relationships, cross-cultural management, intercultural conflict, and culture shock.

Author : William B. Gudykunst
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761927492
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theorizing About Intercultural Communication written by William B. Gudykunst and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second, theories can be designed to describe how communication varies across cultures.

Author : Kathryn Sorrells
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483324826
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Communication written by Kathryn Sorrells and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intercultural Communication: Globalization and Social Justice, Second Edition, introduces students to the study of communication among cultures within the broader context of globalization. Kathryn Sorrells highlights history, power, and global institutions as central to understanding the relationships and contexts that shape intercultural communication. Based on a framework that promotes critical thinking, reflection, and action, this text takes a social justice approach that provides students with the skills and knowledge to create a more equitable world through communication. Loaded with new case studies and contemporary topics, the Second Edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the current global context, emerging local and global issues, and more diverse experiences.