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Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics.Each book in the series guides readers through three main sections, enabling them to explore and develop major themes within the discipline.* Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers' techniques of analysis through practical application.* Section B, Extension, brings together influential articles, sets them in context, and discusses their contribution to the field.* Section C, Exploration, builds on knowledge gained in the first two sections, setting thoughtful tasks around further illustrative material. This enables readers to engage more actively with the subject matter and encourages them to develop their own research responses.Throughout the book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven and deconstructed, with the reader's understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions.This highly-successful text introduces and explores the dynamic area of intercultural communication, and the updated third edition features:* new readings by Prue Holmes, Fred Dervin, Lei Guo and Summer Harlow, Miriam Sobre-Denton and Nilaniana Bardham, which reflect the most recentdevelopments in the field* refreshed and expanded examples and exercises including new material on the world of business, radicalisation and cultural fundamentalism* extended discussion of topics which include cutting-edge material on cosmopolitanism, immigrants' intercultural communication and cultural travel* revised further reading.Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Intercultural Communication, Third edition provides an essential textbook for advanced students studying this topic.
Contents
IntroductionSECTION A: INTRODUCTION - DEFINING CONCEPTSTHEME 1 IDENTITYUnit A1.1 People like meUnit A1.2 Artefacts of cultureUnit A1.3 Identity cardTHEME 2 ADDRESSING THE OTHERUnit A2.1 Communication is about not presumingUnit A2.2 Cultural dealingUnit A2.3 Power and discourseTHEME 3 REPRESENTATIONUnit A3.1 Cultural refugeeUnit A3.2 Complex imagesUnit A3.3 The paradoxes of institutional lifeUnit A3.4 Disciplines for intercultural communicationSECTION B: EXTENSIONINTRODUCTIONUnit B0.1 'Culture' and 'community' in everyday discourseUnit B0.2 'Culture' - Definitions and perspectivesUnit B0.3 Current and previous approaches to the study of intercultural communicationTHEME 1 IDENTITYUnit B1.1 Identity as a personal projectUnit B1.2 Globalization, cosmopolitanism and identityUnit B1.3 Discourse and identityUnit B1.4 Discourse, identity and intercultural communicationUnit B1.5 Identity and language learningTHEME 2 OTHERINGUnit B2.1 Othering - Focus on JapanUnit B2.2 Images of the OtherUnit B2.3 Power and the Other in intercultural communicationUnit B2.4 Power and the Other in educational contextsUnit B2.5 The Other and the tourist gazeTHEME 3 REPRESENTATIONUnit B3.1 The representation of identity: Personality and its social constructionUnit B3.2 Social constructionism and social representationsUnit B3.3 Representation in the media - The case of 'asylum seekers'Unit B3.4 Representation of identity onlineUnit B3.5 Cultural constructs in business and intercultural training Unit B3.6 Challenging cultural constructs in intercultural training and ducationSECTION C: EXPLORATIONTHEME 1 IDENTITYUnit C1.1 The story of the selfUnit C1.2 Becoming the self by defining the OtherUnit C1.3 Undoing cultural fundamentalismUnit C1.4 Investigating discourse and powerUnit C1.5 Locality and transcendence of locality: Factors in identity formationTHEME 2 OTHERINGUnit C2.1 OtheringUnit C2.2 'As you speak, therefore you are'Unit C2.3 The 'located' selfUnit C2.4 Integrating the OtherUnit C2.5 'Are you what you are supposed to be?'THEME 3 REPRESENTATIONUnit C3.1 'You are, therefore I am'Unit C3.2 'Schemas': fixed or flexible?Unit C3.3 'What's underneath?' Unit C3.4 'Manufacturing the self'Unit C3.5 'Minimal clues lead to big conclusions'
