How Different are We?
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How Different are We?

Spoken Discourse in Intercultural Communication

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eBook - PDF

How Different are We?

Spoken Discourse in Intercultural Communication

About this book

This book examines the influence of cultural values and communication styles on intercultural communication and demonstrates how training can develop intercultural communication competencies. A large number of interactions between well-educated immigrants from all continents and from more than a hundred countries, together with some including native speakers, are examined and participants' answers to questionnaires compared with their actual communicative behaviour. The author raises questions of interest to many groups: linguists, educators, business people and sociologists. Which values are most salient and enduring, and which cause clashes between cultural groups? To what extent do people retain the communication style identified with their first language and how do these different styles impact on others?

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Transcribing Symbols
  5. Chapter 1 Introduction
  6. Chapter 2 The Data
  7. Chapter 3 Cultural Value Systems: An Overview of the Literature
  8. Chapter 4 Data Analysis: Cultural Values Reflected in the Discourse
  9. Chapter 5 Communication Styles: An Overview of the Literature
  10. Chapter 6 Data Analysis: Discourse Organisation and Rhetorical Strategies
  11. Chapter 7 Data Analysis: Turn-Taking Patterns and the Distribution of Talk
  12. Chapter 8 Data Analysis: Assertiveness, Disagreement and Conflict
  13. Chapter 9 Developing Communicative Competencies: Intercultural & Linguacultural
  14. Chapter 10 Conclusion
  15. Appendix 1 The Participants
  16. Appendix 2 Problems
  17. Appendix 3 Intercultural Communication Training: Methods and Materials
  18. Appendix 4 Explanations for Exercise 2
  19. Appendix 5 Explanations of Case Studies: Exercise 5
  20. Appendix 6 Explanations of Non-Verbal Behaviour: Exercise 6
  21. References
  22. Index