ISBN:
9780367482992
,
9781032185446
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 132 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Routledge focus on applied linguistics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Holliday, Adrian Contesting grand narratives of the intercultural
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Holliday, Adrian, 1950 - Contesting grand narratives of the intercultural
DDC:
303.48/20955
Keywords:
Intercultural communication
;
Multiculturalism
;
Body-mind centering
;
Cultural competence
;
Cross-cultural studies
;
Iran
;
Interkulturalität
;
Kultur
;
Nationalbewusstsein
Abstract:
"Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural uses an auto-ethnographic account of the author's experience of living in Iran in the 1970s to demonstrate the constant struggle to prevent the intercultural from being dominated by essentialist grand narratives that falsely define us within separate, bounded national or civilisational cultures. This book provides critical insight that: -DeCentres how we encounter and research the intercultural by means of a third-space methodology -Recovers the figurative, creative, flowing and boundary-dissolving power of culture -Recognises hybrid integration which enables us the choice and agency to be ourselves with others in intercultural settings -Demonstrates how early native-speakerism pulls us back to essentialist large-culture blocks. Aimed at students and researchers in applied linguistics, intercultural studies, sociology and education, this volume shows how cultural difference in stories, personal space, language, practices and values generates unexpected and transcendent threads of experience to which we can all relate within small culture formation on the go."
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
