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English across Cultures. Cultures across English
A Reader in Cross-cultural Communication
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English across Cultures. Cultures across English
A Reader in Cross-cultural Communication
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- The Authors
- The Editors
- Introduction
- PART 1 : ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES
- Section One. The impact of différences in socio-cultural backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Socio-pragmatic constraints
- Some types of communicative stratégies across cultures: Sense and sensitivity
- English as object and medium of (mis)understanding
- The (mis)identification of regional and national accents of English: Pragmatic, cognitive and social aspects
- Culture and language in classroom communication
- English for academic purposes: A hidden curriculum in ways of speaking
- Invisible culture in the classroom: Minority pupils and the principie of adaptation
- Section Two. The impact of differences in socio-political realities on communication in English: Macro-societal constraints
- Intercultural miscommunication as a source of friction in the workplace and in educational settings in South Africa
- Socio-political influence on cultural identity in Canada. Implications for cross-cultural communication in English
- English as problem and resource in Sri Lankan Universities
- They speak English, don’t they?
- PART II: CULTURES ACROSS ENGLISH
- Section Three. The impact of différences in socio-linguistic backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Ethno-linguistic constraints
- British-American lexical differences. A typology of interdialectal variation
- Questions of standards and intra-regional differences in Caribbean examinations
- Structural mimicry in decreolization and its effect on pseudocomprehension
- Cultural congruence and conflict in the acquisition of formulae in a second language
- Dialectology in our time? The English of the Cajuns
- Flexibility in lexical usage in Cameroon English
- Cultures in conflict: Varieties of English in Northern Ireland
- Section Four. The impact of différences in socio-psychological identity of interlocutors: Identity constraints
- Patois and the politics of protest: Black English in British classrooms
- Code-switching in narrative performance: A Puerto Rican speech Community in New York
- Social and linguistic parameters of prosody in Chicano English
- Central Canadian English and Received Standard English. A comparison of pronunciation
- Indian literature in English
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index