Intercultural Interaction: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Intercultural Communication

✍ Scribed by Helen Spencer-Oatey, Peter Franklin (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 378
• Series: Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written in a highly accessible style and in four parts, this book provides rapid and authoritative access to current ideas and practice in intercultural communication. It draws on concepts and findings from a range of different disciplines and uses authentic examples of intercultural interaction to illustrate points.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Unpacking Culture....Pages 13-49
Intercultural Interaction Competence (ICIC)....Pages 50-80
Achieving Understanding in Intercultural Interaction....Pages 81-100
Promoting Rapport in Intercultural Interaction....Pages 101-129
Confronting Disadvantage and Domination in Intercultural Interaction....Pages 130-150
Adapting to Unfamiliar Cultures....Pages 151-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Assessing Competence in Intercultural Interaction....Pages 173-198
Developing Competence in Intercultural Interaction....Pages 199-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Research Topics in Intercultural Interaction....Pages 245-265
Culture and the Research Process....Pages 266-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Resources....Pages 295-325
Back Matter....Pages 326-367

✦ Subjects

Sociolinguistics; Communication Studies; Language Teaching; Language Education; Management