The Language and Intercultural Communication Reader (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements  How to use the Reader  Introduction: Themes and issues in the study of Language and Intercultural Communication - Zhu Hua  Notes for students and instructors  Part I: Culture, Language And Thought   Introduction to Part One  1. The relation of habitual thought and behaviour to Language - Benjamin Whorf  2. Is the world made up of nouns or verbs? - Richard Nisbett  3. Hofstede’s value dimensions and Hall’s high context/low context - Larry A. Samovar, Richard Porter & Lisa A. Stefani  Notes for students and instructors  Part II: Cultural Approaches To Discourse And Pragmatics: Theoretical Considerations  Introduction to Part Two   4. Interpersonal politeness and power - Ron Scollon & Suzanne Wong Scollon  5. Politeness phenomena in Modern Chinese - Yueguo Gu  6. How and why honorifics can signify dignity and elegance: The indexicality and reflexivity of linguistic rituals - Sachiko Ide  7. Managing rapport in talk: Using rapport sensitive incidents to explore the motivational concerns underlying the management of relations - Helen Spencer-Oatey  8. Cultural scripts: what are they and what are they good for? - Cliff Goddard & Anna Wierzbicka  Notes for students and instructors.  Part III: Communication Patterns Across Cultures: Empirical Examples  Introduction to Part Three  9. Requests and Apologies: A Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act realisation patterns - Shoshana Blum-Kulka and Elite Olshtain  10. The dugri ritual - Tamar Katriel  11. The pragmatic functions of the recitation of Qur’anic verses by Muslims in their oral genre: The case of Insha’ allah, ‘God’s willing’ - Ayman Nazzal  12. The silent Finn revisited - Kari Sajavaara and Jaakko Lehtonen  Notes for students and instructors  Part IV: Teaching and Learning Cultural Variations of Language Use  Introduction to Part Four  13. Small cultures - Adrian Holliday  14. Developmental patterns in second language pragmatics - Gabriele Kasper and Kenneth R. Rose  15. Signaling and preventing misunderstanding in English as lingua franca communication - Anna Mauranen  Notes for students and instructors  Part V: Interculturality  Introduction to Part Five  16. Intercultural or not? Beyond celebration of cultural differences in miscommunication analysis - Srikant Sarangi  17. The interactive constitution of interculturality: How to be a Japanese with words - Aug Nishizaka  18. Constructing membership in the in-group: Affiliation and resistance among Urban Tanzanians - Christina Higgins  Notes for students and instructors  Part VI: Intercultural Communication In A Professional Context  Introduction to Part Six  19. Intercultural communication at work in Australia: Complaints and apologies in turns - Michael Clyne, Martin Ball and Deborah Neil  20. Suggestions to buy: Television commercials from the U.S., Japan, China and Korea - Richard Schmidt, Akihiko Shimura, Zhigang Wang and Hy-sook Jeong  21. Interruptive strategies in British and Italian Management meetings - Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Sandra J. Harris  22. Displaying closeness and respectful distance in Montevidean and Quiteno service encounters - Rosina Marquez Reiter and Maria E. Placencia  Notes for students and instructors  Conclusion: Studying Language and Intercultural Communication: Methodological considerations - Zhu Hua  Notes for students and instructors  Resource List  Glossary  Index