Title:
The language and intercultural communication reader / edited by Zhu Hua.
Main Entry:
Hua, Zhu, 1970-
Publisher:
Routledge,
Publication Date:
2011.
Publication Place:
London ; New York :
ISBN:
9780415549134 (pbk.)
Subject:
Language and culture.
Intercultural communication.
Sociolinguistics.
Contents:
The relation of habitual thought and behaviour to language / Benjamin Whorf -- Is the world made up of nouns or verbs? / Richard Nisbett -- Hofstede's value dimensions and Hall's high context/low context / Larry A. Samovar, Richard Porter & Lisa A. Stefani -- Part 2 Cultural approaches to discourse and pragmatics: Theorectical considerations -- Interpersonal politeness and power / Ron Scollon & Suzanne Wong Scollon -- Politeness phenomena in Modern Chinese / Yueguo Gu -- How and why honorifics can signify dignity and elegance: The indexicality and reflexivity of linguistic rituals / Sachiko Ide -- Managing rapport in talk: Using rapport sensitive incidents to explore the motivational concerns underlying the management of relations / Helen Spencer-Oatey -- Cultural scripts: what are they and what are they good for? / Cliff Goddard & Anna Wierzbicka -- Part 3 Communication patterns across cultures: empirical examples : Requests and apologies: a cross-cultural study of speech act realisation patterns / Shoshana Blum-Kulka and Elite Olshtain -- The Dugri ritual / Tamar Katriel -- The pragmatic functions of the recitation of Quranic verses by Muslims in their oral genre: The case of Insha allah, God's willing / Ayman Nazzal -- The silent Finn revisited / Kari Sajavaara and Jaakko Lehtonen -- Notes for students and instructors : Part 4 Teaching and learning cutural variations of language use: Small cultures / Adrian Holliday -- Developmental patterns in second language pragmatics / Gabriele Kasper and Kenneth R. Rose -- Signaling and preventing misunderstanding in English as lingua franca communication -- Anna Mauranen / Notes for students and instructors -- PART 5 INTERCULTURALITY -- Introduction to part five: -- intercultural or not? beyond celebration of cultural differences in miscommunication analysis / Srikant Sarangi -- The interactive constitution of interculturality: How to be a Japanese with words / Aug Nishizaka -- -- Constructing membership in the in-group: affiliation and resistance among urban tanzanians / Christina Higgins -- Notes for students and instructors: PART 6 INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN A PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT: Introduction to Part Six / Intercultural communication at work in Australia: Complaints and apologies in turns / Michael Clyne, Martin Ball and Deborah Neil -- Suggestions to buy: Television commercials from the U.S., Japan, China and Korea / Richard Schmidt, Akihiko Shimura, Zhigang Wang and Hy-sook Jeong -- Interruptive strategies in British and Italian Management meetings / Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Sandra J. Harris -- Displaying closeness and respectful distance in Montevidean and Quiteنno service encounters / Rosina Mâarquez Reiter and Marâia E. Placencia.
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