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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Organization of the Book: An Approach to Intercultural Communication -- Goal of the Book: Developing Intercultural Communication Competence -- 1 Punctuation Principle: 'What's in a Line?' -- Chapter Outline -- 1 Introducing the Problem Question -- 2 Defining Basic Terms -- 2.1 Culture -- 2.2 Communication -- 3 Identity as Group Membership -- 3.1 Cultural Identity as Reflective Self-Image -- 4 Introducing the Punctuation Principle -- 4.1 Boundary Lines as Conceptualizations -- 4.2 Constructive and Destructive Boundary Lines -- 4.3 Boundary Fit in Intercultural Communication -- 5 The Punctuation Principle Defined -- 6 Case Study: 'Peace Walls' in Northern Ireland -- 7 Side Trips -- 7.1 What Is a 'Person of Color'? -- 7.2 Human Towers in Catalonia -- 7.3 Intangible Cultural Heritage List -- 2 Uncertainty Principle: 'Let the Mystery Be!' -- Chapter Outline -- 1 Introducing the Problem Question -- 2 From Ontology to Epistemology -- 2.1 Objective Stance -- 2.2 Subjective Stance -- 2.3 'Two Sides of the Same Coin' -- 3 Knowledge as Inherently Uncertain -- 4 Introducing the Uncertainty Principle -- 4.1 Uncertainty and Horizon of Knowledge -- 4.2 Uncertainty and Dis-closure -- 4.3 Certainty in Uncertainty -- 5 The Uncertainty Principle Defined -- 6 Case Study: 'The Shock of the Other' -- 7 Side Trips -- 7.1 Uncertainty and Intercultural Crisis Communication -- 7.2 'A Person Who Has No Horizon' -- 7.3 'There Is Strangeness Hidden in the Familiar' -- 3 Performativity Principle: 'The Deed Is Everything' -- Chapter Outline -- 1 Introducing the Problem Question -- 2 Language as Representation -- 2.1 Verbal Language -- 2.2 Nonverbal Language -- 3 How to do Things with Words-and Nonverbals -- 3.1 Language Rules -- 4 Introducing the Performativity Principle.

A number of researchers, trainers and educators in intercultural communication acknowledge that the most popular models and theories of the field are insufficient - even unsuitable - to describe or explain our practical multicultural experiences today. This collection of articles offers new insights and critical evaluations of, intercultural communication theory and research. Authors from a variety of disciplines discuss, for example, methodological concerns; Chinese exceptionalism; micro and

In today's globalized world of international contact and multicultural interaction, effective intercultural communication is increasingly seen as a pre-requisite for social harmony and organisational success. This handbook takes a "problem-solving" approach to the various issues that arise in real-life intercultural interaction. The editors have brought together experts from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, psychology and anthropology, to provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the field, whilst simultaneously anchoring it in Applied Linguistics. Key features: provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the context of intercultural communication presents a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field offers solutions of everyday language-related problems international handbook with contributions from renown experts in the field.

Introduction -- Demarcating the "critical" in critical intercultural communication studies / Rona Tamiko Halualani -- Making a place : a framework for educators working with critical intercultural communication and critical communication pedagogy / Jennifer Sandoval and Keith Nainby -- Intercultural communication, ethics and activism pedagogy / Leda Cooks -- (critical) love is a battlefield : implications for a critical intercultural pedagogical approach / Bernadette Marie Calafell and Robert Gutierrez-Perez -- Engaging historical trauma in the classroom : ethnoautobiography as decolonizing practice / S. Lily Mendoza -- Pedagogies of failure : queer communication pedagogy as anti-normative / Benny LeMaster -- Pedagogy of the taboo : theorizing transformative teaching-learning experiences that speak truth(s) to power / Mark P. Orbe -- Obstructing the process of becoming : basal whiteness and the challenge to critical intercultural communication pedagogy / Gust A. Yep and Ryan M. Lescure -- Performing otherness as an instructor in the interracial communication classroom : an autoethnographic approach / Tina Harris -- Encountering karma : the transgressive adventures of a korean-born tck pedagogue in the us south / Jieyoung Kong -- Mediated critical intercultural communication / Ahmet Atay -- Addressing cultural intersections : critical feminist communication pedagogy / Amy Aldridge Sanford and Jennifer V. Martin -- Dialogue and intercultural communication pedagogy / Alberto Gonzalez and Linsay Cramer -- Critical intercultural communication pedagogy from within : textualizing intercultural and intersectional self-reflexivity / Satoshi Toyosaki and Hsun-Yu (Sharon) Chuang -- About the editors -- About the contributors

This article assumes that the internationalization of higher education demands more elaborate pedagogical approaches to utilise the experiences of multiethnic student groups and to facilitate every student's acquisition of intercultural competencies. Drawing from three internationalisation ideologies embedded in the educational discourse, it is argued that intercultural communication – as a field of study or a discipline – can play a key role in this endeavour. Twelve fields of consideration, when international educators work with students, are also identified.

Metaphor and Intercultural Communication examines in detail the dynamics of metaphor in interlingual contact, translation and globalization processes. Its case-studies, which combine methods of cognitive metaphor theory with those of corpus-based and discourse-oriented research, cover contact linguistic and cultural contacts between Chinese, English including Translational English and Aboriginal English, Greek, Kabyle, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish. Part I introduces readers to practical and methodological problems of the intercultural transfer of metaphor through empi

Part I. Understanding business cultures around the world -- 1. Language and communication -- 2. Social organization -- 3. Contexting and face-saving -- 4. The impact of technology and the environment -- 5. Power, influence, and authority -- 6. Concepts of time -- 7. Body language and non-verbal communication -- Part II. Managing business in a global environment -- 8. Restoring trust in business and understanding international business ethics -- 9. Managing people globally: managing executives on global assignment -- 10. Dealing with culture shock -- 11. Working globally without leaving your desk -- 12. Marketing and negotiating transnationally -- 13. Impact of global growth, BRICS and the Next 11 -- Part III. Understanding and working in specific cultures: country analysis and planning for an overseas assignment -- 14. Working in the United States, and with Americans -- 15. China, India, and the Pacific Rim -- 16. European Union, Europe, and the Former Soviet Union -- 17. South America: and NAFTA -- 18. The Middle East and Africa -- Further reading -- Index