Religion as a domain of intercultural discourse / Intercultural communication : an overview / Jonathan M. Watt. Perspectives on intercultural discourse and communication / Leila Monaghan -- Cultures and languages in contact : towards a typology / John Edwards -- Theoretical perspectives. Interactional sociolinguistics : perspectives on intercultural communication / John J. Gumperz, Jenny Cook-Gumprez -- Ethnography of speaking / Scott F. Kiesling -- Critical approaches to intercultural discourse and communication / Ryuko Kubota -- Postmodernism and intercultural discourse : world Englishes / Suresh Canagarajah -- Interactional discourse features. Turn taking and intercultural discourse and communication / Deborah Tannen -- Silence / Ikuko Nakane -- Indirectness / Michael Lempert -- Politeness in intercultural discourse and communication / Janet Holmes -- Intercultural discourse sites. Anglo-Arab intercultural communication / Eirlys E. Davies, Abdelali Bentahila -- Japan/Angle-American cross cultural communication / Steven Brown, Brenda Hayashi, and Kikue Yamamoto -- "Those Venezuelans are so easy going!" National stereotypes and self-representations in discourse about the other / Lars Fant -- "Face," stereotyping, and claims of power : the Greeks and Turks in interaction / Maria Sifianou, Arin Bayraktarglu -- Intercultural communication and vocational language learning in South Africa : law and healthcare / Russell H. Kaschula, Pamela Maseko -- Indigenous-Mestizo interaction in Mexico / Rocio Fuentes -- Interactional domains. Translation and intercultural communication: bridges and barriers / Eiryls E. Davies -- Cultural differences in business communication / John Hooker -- Intercultural communication in the law / Diana Eades -- Medicine / Claudia V. Angelelli -- Intercultural discourse and communication in education / Amanda J. Godley -- Religion as a domain of intercultural discourse / Jonathan M. Watt.
Summary:
Intercultural discourse and communication is emerging as an important area of research in a highly globalized and connected world, where language and culture contact is frequent and cultural misunderstandings and misconceptions abound. The handbook contains contributions from established scholars and up and coming researchers from a range of subfields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work in this burgeoning area of linguistics. This timely volume features first a part that introduces the background detailing the scope and topics of the field,; followed by one that describes four different theoretical approaches and their basic research questions, from Ethnography of Speaking and John Gumperz's Interactional Sociolinguistics to Critical Approaches and Postmodernism. The third part, "Interactional Discourse Features," describes and explains the features of talk that are frequently studied in cross-cultural research, such as turn-taking and politeness. The volume also includes a section on Interactional Discourse sites, examining cross-cultural communication (such as Greek-Turkish discourse). The final part considers a variety of domains in which interaction takes place, such as Translation, Business, Law, Medicine, Education, and Religion.
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