Full Description
Combining perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, the third 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 multilingualism studies, highlights the use and prestige of different languages and language varieties as well as the varying access that speakers have to them.
Contents
Preface to the third edition
Introduction
1. Approaching Intercultural Communication
2. Digging Deeper: The Genealogy of Intercultural
3. Language and Culture
4. Nation and Culture
5. Multilingual Intercultural Communication
6. Transnational Intercultural Communication
7. Intercultural Business Communication
8. Intercultural School Communication
9. Intercultural Crisis Communication
10. Intercultural Consumption
11. Intercultural Romance
12. Becoming an Intercultural Mediator
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