ABSTRACT

Exploring Intercultural Communication investigates the role of language in intercultural communication, paying particular attention to the interplay between cultural diversity and language practice. This second edition increases and updates the coverage on emerging key topics, including symbolic power, communicative turbulence, conversational inequality, stereotypes, racism, Nationality and Ethnicity talk and the impact and role of technology in intercultural communication. Including global examples from a range of genres, this book is an indispensable resource for students taking language and intercultural communication modules within applied linguistics, TESOL, education or communication studies courses.

part I|99 pages

Intercultural communication in everyday life

chapter 1|21 pages

Language classrooms

chapter 2|20 pages

The workplace

chapter 3|20 pages

Business

chapter 4|17 pages

Family and migration

chapter 5|19 pages

Study abroad and tourism

part II|80 pages

Developing intercultural communicative competence

part III|52 pages

Understanding intercultural communication critically

chapter 10|14 pages

The relation between language, culture and thought

The classical question

chapter 11|15 pages

Theories of culture

A fundamental question

chapter 12|21 pages

Language, identity and interculturality

A paradigm-shifting question