Intercultural Communication and Identity (Elements in Intercultural Communication)

✍ Scribed by Ron Darvin, Tongle Sun

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 68
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This Element asserts how identity as a construct enables a critical awareness of how speakers position themselves and are positioned by others in intercultural encounters. It discusses how identity vis-à-vis culture has been theorized through social psychological, poststructuralist, and critical lenses, and how identity is discursively constructed and mediated. Rejecting essentialist notions of language and culture, this Element demonstrates how inscriptions of identity such as race, ethnicity, nationality, and class can be used to critically examine the dynamics of situated intercultural encounters and to understand how such interactions can index competing and colluding ideologies. By examining identity research from different parts of the world, it casts a light on how identities are performed in diverse intercultural contexts and discusses research methodologies that have been employed to examine identity in intercultural communication.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Intercultural Communication and Identity
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Theorizing Identity
2.1 Social Psychological Perspectives of Identity
2.2 Poststructuralist Perspectives of Identity
2.3 Critical Perspectives
3 Performing Identity
3.1 Identity as Constructed
3.2 Identity as Fluid
3.3 Identity as Negotiated
3.4 Identity as Mediated
4 Categorizing Identity
4.1 Race and Ethnicity
4.2 Nationality
4.3 Class
5 Contextualizing Identity
5.1 Language Learning and Teaching
5.2 Migrant Families and/or Individuals
5.3 Studying/Traveling Abroad
5.4 Workplace
5.5 Online Spaces
6 Researching Identity
6.1 Ethnography
6.2 Case Study
6.3 Narrative Inquiry
6.4 Conversation Analysis
6.5 Critical Discourse Analysis
6.6 Digital Ethnography
7 Conclusion
References
About the Authors