How Different are We?

Spoken Discourse in Intercultural Communication

AvHelen FitzGerald

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

Del 4 i serien Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education

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Beskrivning

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?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-11-08
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:345 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
Antal sidor:261
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781853596193

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Dr Helen FitzGerald has had extensive experience teaching English to immigrants and international students in both Australia and Asia. At present she is an advanced skills teacher at the Canberra Institute of Technology teaching immigrants in the Adult Migrant Education Program. For the last ten years, she has also had an overlapping career as an intercultural communication consultant and trainer, designing and delivering customised courses and briefings for a wide range of Australian organisations in both the private and public sectors. During this time, she has written a textbook, Cross-Cultural Communication for the Tourism and Hospitality Industry, and written and co-authored a number of articles, training courses and online courses on intercultual communication, on English writing and grammar, and on equity and diversity issues.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword AcknowledgementsTranscribing Symbols 1 Introduction 2 The Data 3 Cultural Value Systems: An Overview of the Literature4 Data Analysis: Cultural Values Reflected in the Discourse5 Communication Styles: An Overview of the Literature 6 Data Analysis: Discourse Organisation and Rhetorical Strategies7 Data Analysis: Turn-Taking Patterns & the Distribution of Talk 8 Data Analysis: Assertiveness, Disagreement and Conflict 9 Developing Communicative Competencies 10 ConclusionAppendix 1: The Participants Appendix 2: Problems Appendix 3: Training: Methods and Materials Appendix 4: Explanations for Exercise 2 Appendix 5: Explanations of Case Studies: Exercise 5Appendix 6: Explanations of Non-Verbal Behaviour: Exercise 6 References Index