ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication provides a comprehensive historical survey of language and intercultural communication studies with a critical assessment of past and present theory, research, and practice, as well as an insight into future directions.

Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars from different parts of the world, this second edition offers updated chapters by returning authors and many new contributions on a broad range of topics, including reflexivity and criticality, translanguaging, and social justice in relation to intercultural communication.With an emphasis on contemporary, critical perspectives, this handbook showcases the varied range of issues, perspectives, and approaches that characterise this increasingly important field in today’s globalised world.

Offering 34 chapters with examples from a variety of languages and international settings, this handbook is an indispensable resource for students and scholars working in the fields of intercultural communication, applied linguistics, TESOL/ TEFL, and communication studies.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction and overview

part I|90 pages

Foundations of language and intercultural communication studies

part II|82 pages

Core themes and issues

part |76 pages

Language, identity, and intercultural communication

part |62 pages

Language, intercultural (communicative) competence, and intercultural citizenship

chapter 16|16 pages

Language

An essential component of intercultural communicative competence

chapter 17|16 pages

From native speaker to intercultural speaker and beyond

Intercultural (communicative) competence in foreign language education

chapter 19|15 pages

Language education and global citizenship

Decolonial and posthuman perspectives through pedagogies of discomfort

part III|84 pages

Theory into practice: Towards intercultural (communicative) competence and citizenship

part IV|142 pages

Language and intercultural communication in context

chapter 28|16 pages

Intercultural business education

The role of critical theory and experiential learning

part V|20 pages

New debates and future directions