The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication Intercultural discourse and communication is emerging as an important area of research in a highly globalized and connected world, where language and culture contact is frequent and cultural misunderstandings and misconceptions abound. The handbook contains contributions from established scholars and up-and-coming researchers from a range of subfields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work in this burgeoning area of linguistics. This timely volume features first a part that introduces the background detailing the scope and topics of the field; followed by one that describes four different theoretical approaches and their basic research questions, from Ethnography of Speaking and John Gumperz s Interactional Sociolinguistics to Critical Approaches and Postmodernism. The third part, Interactional Discourse Features, describes and explains the features of talk that are frequently studied in cross-cultural research, such as turn-taking and politeness. The volume also includes a section on Interactional Discourse sites, examining cross-cultural communication (such as Greek-Turkish discourse). The final part considers a variety of domains in which interaction takes place, such as Translation, Business, Law, Medicine, Education, and Religion.

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and CommunicationIntercultural discourse and communication is emerging as an important area of research in a highly globalized and connected world, where language and culture contact is frequent and cultural misunderstandings and misconceptions abound. The handbook contains contributions from established scholars and up-and-coming researchers from a range of subfields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work in this burgeoning area of linguistics.This timely volume features first a part that introduces the background detailing the scope and topics of the field; followed by one that describes four different theoretical approaches and their basic research questions, from Ethnography of Speaking and John Gumperz's Interactional Sociolinguistics to Critical Approaches and Postmodernism. The third part, "Interactional Discourse Features," describes and explains the features of talk that are frequently studied in cross-cultural research, such as turn-taking and politeness. The volume also includes a section on Interactional Discourse sites, examining cross-cultural communication (such as Greek-Turkish discourse).The final part considers a variety of domains in which interaction takes place, such as Translation, Business, Law, Medicine, Education, and Religion.

Notes on Contributors viiPreface xvIntroduction xviiPart I Background 11 Intercultural Communication: An Overview 3Ingrid Piller2 Perspectives on Intercultural Discourse and Communication19Leila Monaghan3 Cultures and Languages in Contact: Towards a Typology 37John EdwardsPart II Theoretical Perspectives 614 Interactional Sociolinguistics: Perspectives on InterculturalCommunication 63John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz5 Ethnography of Speaking 77Scott F. Kiesling6 Critical Approaches to Intercultural Discourse andCommunication 90Ryuko Kubota7 Postmodernism and Intercultural Discourse: World Englishes110Suresh CanagarajahPart III Interactional Discourse Features 1338 Turn-Taking and Intercultural Discourse and Communication135Deborah Tannen9 Silence 158Ikuko Nakane10 Indirectness 180Michael Lempert11 Politeness in Intercultural Discourse and Communication205Janet HolmesPart IV Intercultural Discourse Sites 22912 Anglo-Arab Intercultural Communication 231Eirlys E. Davies and Abdelali Bentahila13 Japan/Anglo-American Cross-Cultural Communication 252Steven Brown, Brenda Hayashi, and Kikue Yamamoto14 "Those Venezuelans are so easy-going!" NationalStereotypes and Self-Representations in Discourse about the Other272Lars Fant15 "Face," Stereotyping, and Claims of Power: TheGreeks and Turks in Interaction 292Maria Sifianou and ArynBayraktarodlu16 Intercultural Communication and Vocational Language Learningin South Africa: Law and Healthcare 313Russell H. Kaschula and Pamela Maseko17 Indigenous-Mestizo Interaction in Mexico 337Rocío FuentesPart V Interactional Domains 36518 Translation and Intercultural Communication: Bridges andBarriers 367Eirlys E. Davies19 Cultural Differences in Business Communication 389John Hooker20 Intercultural Communication in the Law 408Diana Eades21 Medicine 430Claudia V. Angelelli22 Intercultural Discourse and Communication in Education449Amanda J. Godley23 Religion as a Domain of Intercultural Discourse 482Jonathan M. WattIndex 496