Communication across Cultures Mutual Understanding in a Global World
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Communication across Cultures explores how cultural context affects the use and (mis)interpretation of language. It provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to language and language variation in intercultural communication by drawing on both classic and cutting-edge research from pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and politeness studies. This new edition has been comprehensively updated to incorporate recent research, with an emphasis on the fluid and emergent practice of intercultural communication. It provides increased coverage of variation in language within and…
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Key features
- Provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to language and language variation in intercultural communication
- Comprehensively updated to incorporate recent research
- Reviews and critiques classic concepts such as 'face', 'politeness' and 'speech acts'
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107445680
- Subjects Language and Linguistics,Sociolinguistics and Language in Society
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 15 December 2014
- ISBN: 9781107685147
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.68kg
- Page extent: 240 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 12 August 2019
- ISBN: 9781107445680
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