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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 .The
Handbook contains contributions from established scholars and up-and-coming researchers from a range of fields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work in this burgeoning area of linguistics.
This timely volume features first a section which introduces the background detailing the scope and topics of the field; followed by a section of four different theoretical approaches and their basic research questions, from Dell Hymes's foundational Ethnography of Speaking and John Gumperz's Interactional Sociolinguistics to Critical approaches and Postmodernism. The following sections cover Interactional Discourse Features (such as turn-taking and politeness) and Interactional Discourse sites (such as Greek-Turkish discourse). The
Handbook concludes with chapters on where such discourse occurs, such as Law, Medicine, and Religion.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Preface xv
Introduction xvii
Part I Background 1
1 Intercultural Communication: An Overview 3
Ingrid Piller 2 Perspectives on Intercultural Discourse and Communication 19
Leila Monaghan 3 Cultures and Languages in Contact: Towards a Typology 37
John Edwards Part II Theoretical Perspectives 61
4 Interactional Sociolinguistics: Perspectives on Intercultural Communication 63
John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz 5 Ethnography of Speaking 77
Scott F. Kiesling 6 Critical Approaches to Intercultural Discourse and Communication 90
Ryuko Kubota 7 Postmodernism and Intercultural Discourse: World Englishes 110
Suresh Canagarajah Part III Interactional Discourse Features 133
8 Turn-Taking and Intercultural Discourse and Communication 135
Deborah Tannen 9 Silence 158
Ikuko Nakane 10 Indirectness 180
Michael Lempert 11 Politeness in Intercultural Discourse and Communication 205
Janet Holmes Part IV Intercultural Discourse Sites 229
12 Anglo-Arab Intercultural Communication 231
Eirlys E. Davies and Abdelali Bentahila 13 Japan/Anglo-American Cross-Cultural Communication 252
Steven Brown, Brenda Hayashi, and Kikue Yamamoto 14 "Those Venezuelans are so easy-going!" National Stereotypes and Self-Representations in Discourse about the Other 272
Lars Fant 15 "Face," Stereotyping, and Claims of Power: The Greeks and Turks in Interaction 292
Maria Sifianou and Arýn Bayraktaroðlu 16 Intercultural Communication and Vocational Language Learning in South Africa: Law and Healthcare 313
Russell H. Kaschula and Pamela Maseko 17 Indigenous-Mestizo Interaction in Mexico 337
Rocío Fuentes Part V Interactional Domains 365
18 Translation and Intercultural Communication: Bridges and Barriers 367
Eirlys E. Davies 19 Cultural Differences in Business Communication 389
John Hooker 20 Intercultural Communication in the Law 408
Diana Eades 21 Medicine 430
Claudia V. Angelelli 22 Intercultural Discourse and Communication in Education 449
Amanda J. Godley 23 Religion as a Domain of Intercultural Discourse 482
Jonathan M. Watt Index 496
About the author
Scott F. Kiesling is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. His publications include the books
Linguistic Variation and Change (2011) and
Intercultural Discourse and Communication: The Essential Readings (Wiley-Blackwell 2005, co-edited with Christina Bratt Paulston).
Christina Bratt Paulston is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. Her numerous publications include
Intercultural Discourse and Communication: The Essential Readings (Wiley-Blackwell 2005, co-edited with Scott F. Kiesling),
Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings (Blackwell 2003, co-edited with G. Richard Tucker), and
Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Bilingual Education (1992).
Elizabeth S. Rangel is Research Associate at Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), a Cognitive Science Research Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. Her most recent publications include chapters in the third edition of the
International Encyclopedia of Education (2010), and
Innovative Learning Environments from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (2010).
Summary
The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication contains contributions from established scholars and up-and-coming researchers from a range of disciplines to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work in this burgeoning area of linguistics.
