ISBN:
9781118149683
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 311 Seiten)
Edition:
Third edition
Series Statement:
Language in society 21
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Scollon, Ronald, 1939 - 2009 Intercultural communication
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Intercultural communication
;
Intercultural communication
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Diskursanalyse
;
Internationale Kommunikation
;
Interkulturelle Kompetenz
Abstract:
This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication. Grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, this work integrates theoretical principles and methodological advice, presenting students, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and unified resource. Features new original theory, expanded treatment of generations, gender and corporate and professional discourse Offers improved organization and added features for student and classroom use, including ad
Description / Table of Contents:
Intercultural Communication; Contents; Figures; Series Editor's Preface; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; 1: What Is a Discourse Approach?; The Problem with Culture; Culture is a verb; Discourse; Discourse systems; What Is Communication?; Language is ambiguous by nature; We must draw inferences about meaning; Our inferences tend to be fixed, not tentative; Our inferences are drawn very quickly; Interdiscourse communication and English as a global language; What This Book Is Not; Researching Interdiscourse Communication
Description / Table of Contents:
Four processes of ethnographyFour types of data in ethnographic research; Choosing a site of investigation; Discussion Questions; References for Further Study; 2: How, When, and Where to Do Things with Language; Sentence Meaning and Speaker's Meaning; Speech Acts, Speech Events, and Speech Situations; Grammar of Context; Seven main components for a grammar of context; Scene; Key; Participants; Message form; Sequence; Co-occurrence patterns, marked and unmarked; Manifestation; Variation in context grammar; "Culture" and Context; High context and low context situations
Description / Table of Contents:
Researching Interdiscourse CommunicationUsing the "grammar of context" as a preliminary ethnographic audit; Discussion Questions; References for Further Study; 3: Interpersonal Politeness and Power; Communicative Style or Register; Face; The "self" as a communicative identity; The Paradox of Face: Involvement and Independence; Politeness strategies of involvement and independence; Linguistic strategies of involvement: some examples; Linguistic strategies of independence: some examples; Face Systems; Three Face Systems: Deference, Solidarity, and Hierarchy; Deference face system (−P, +D)
Description / Table of Contents:
Solidarity face system (−P, −D)Hierarchical face system (+P, +/−D); Miscommunication; Variations in Face Systems; Social Organization and Face Systems; Kinship; The concept of the self; Ingroup-outgroup relationships; Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft; Researching Interdiscourse Communication; Exploring the interaction order; Discussion Questions; References for Further Study; 4: Conversational Inference: Interpretation in Spoken Discourse; How Do We Understand Discourse?; Cohesive Devices: Lexical and Grammatical; Reference; Verb forms; Conjunction; The causal conjunction "because"
Description / Table of Contents:
Cognitive Schemata and ScriptsWorld knowledge; Adjacency sequences; Prosodic Patterning: Intonation and Timing; Intonation; Timing; Metacommunication; Non-sequential processing; Interactive Intelligence; Researching Interdiscourse Communication; Collecting and analyzing spoken data; Reconfiguring default settings; Discussion Questions; References for Further Study; 5: Topic and Face: Inductive and Deductive Patterns in Discourse; What Are You Talking About?; Topic, Turn Exchange, and Timing; The call-answer-topic adjacency sequence; The call; The answer; The introduction of the caller's topic
Description / Table of Contents:
Deductive Monologues
Description / Table of Contents:
What is a discourse approach?How when and where to do things with language -- Interpersonal politeness and power -- Conversational inference : interpretation in spoken discourse -- Topic and face : inductive and deductive patterns in discourse -- Ideologies in discourse -- Forms of discourse -- Socialization -- Corporate and professional discourse -- Generational discourse -- Gender and sexuality discourse -- Doing "intercultural communication".
Description / Table of Contents:
interpretation in spoken discourse -- Topic and face : inductive and deductive patterns in discourse -- Ideologies in discourse -- Forms of discourse -- Socialization -- Corporate and professional discourse -- Generational discourse -- Gender and sexuality discourse -- Doing "intercultural communication"
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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