The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication

2. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-138-38945-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 610 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1220 g

Reihe: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction and overview

Section I: Foundations of language and intercultural communication studies

- A global look at the history and development of language and intercultural communication studies

- Culture, communication, context, and power

- Language, identity, and intercultural communication

- Conceptualizing intercultural (communicative) competence and intercultural citizenship

- Reflexivity and criticality in language and intercultural communication research and practice

Section II: Core Themes and issues

Language, culture, and communication

- Linguaculture and transnationality: the cultural dimensions of language

- Intercultural rhetoric and intercultural communication

- Interculturality and intercultural pragmatics

- Speech acts, facework, and politeness: sociopragmatics, facework, and intercultural relationship-building

- Translation, interpreting, and intercultural communication

Language, identity, and intercultural communication

- Constructing the cultural Other: prejudice and stereotyping

- Intercultural contact, hybridity, and third space

- Gender, language, identity, and intercultural communication

- Translanguaging, identity, and migration

- Language learning, identity, and intercultural communication in contexts of conflict and insecurity

Language, intercultural (communicative) competence, and intercultural citizenship

- Language: an essential component of intercultural communicative competence

- From native speaker to intercultural speaker and beyond: intercultural (communicative) competence in foreign language education

- World Englishes and intercultural communication

- Language education and global citizenship: decolonial and posthuman perspectives through pedagogies of discomfort

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

- Intercultural second language teacher education

- Intercultural responsibility: transnational research and glocal critical citizenship

- Intercultural communicative competence development through telecollaboration and virtual exchange

- Social justice, diversity, and intercultural-global citizenship education in the global context

- Assessing intercultural language learning

Section IV: Language and intercultural communication in context

- Intercultural language teaching and learning in classroom practice

- Intercultural communication in the multicultural classroom

- The language and intercultural dimension of education abroad

- Intercultural business education: the role of critical theory and experiential learning

- Intercultural communication in professional and workplace settings

- Linguistically and culturally diverse project partnerships and teams

- Intercultural communication in health care settings

- Intercultural communication in legal contexts

- Intercultural communication in tourism

Section V: New Debates and future directions

- A global agenda for ethical language and intercultural communication research and practice

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Jackson is Professor in the English Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.