Intercultural Communication and Identity

This Element asserts how identity as a construct enables a critical awareness of how speakers position themselves and are positioned by others in intercultural encounters. It discusses how identity vis-à-vis culture has been theorized through social psychological, poststructuralist, and critical lenses, and how identity is discursively constructed and mediated. Rejecting essentialist notions of language and culture, this Element demonstrates how inscriptions of identity such as race, ethnicity, nationality, and class can be used to critically examine the dynamics of situated intercultural encounters and to understand how such interactions can index competing and colluding ideologies. By examining identity research from different parts of the world, it casts a light on how identities are performed in diverse intercultural contexts and discusses research methodologies that have been employed to examine identity in intercultural communication.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Theorizing identity; 3. Performing identity; 4. Categorizing identity; 5. Contextualizing identity; 6. Researching identity; 7. Conclusion; References.

Summary

This Element asserts how identity enables a critical awareness of how speakers position themselves and are positioned by others in intercultural encounters. It shows how inscriptions of identity can help critically examine the dynamics of situated intercultural encounters and how such encounters can index different ideologies.

Foreword

This Element provides an overview of how identity is fundamental to exploring critical intercultural communication.

Product details

• Authors: Ron Darvin, Ron (University of British Columbia Darvin, Tongle Sun
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009478571
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0947857-1
• No. of pages: 68
• Series: Elements in Intercultural Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Cultural Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Social groups, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Language teaching theory & methods, Social groups, communities and identities, Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics