Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction and overview
Section I: Foundations of language and intercultural communication studies
- A global look at the history and development of language and intercultural communication studies
- Culture, communication, context, and power
- Language, identity, and intercultural communication
- Conceptualizing intercultural (communicative) competence and intercultural citizenship
- Reflexivity and criticality in language and intercultural communication research and practice
Section II: Core Themes and issues
Language, culture, and communication
- Linguaculture and transnationality: the cultural dimensions of language
- Intercultural rhetoric and intercultural communication
- Interculturality and intercultural pragmatics
- Speech acts, facework, and politeness: sociopragmatics, facework, and intercultural relationship-building
- Translation, interpreting, and intercultural communication
Language, identity, and intercultural communication
- Constructing the cultural Other: prejudice and stereotyping
- Intercultural contact, hybridity, and third space
- Gender, language, identity, and intercultural communication
- Translanguaging, identity, and migration
- Language learning, identity, and intercultural communication in contexts of conflict and insecurity
Language, intercultural (communicative) competence, and intercultural citizenship
- Language: an essential component of intercultural communicative competence
- From native speaker to intercultural speaker and beyond: intercultural (communicative) competence in foreign language education
- World Englishes and intercultural communication
- Language education and global citizenship: decolonial and posthuman perspectives through pedagogies of discomfort
Section III: Theory into practice: Towards intercultural (communicative) competence and citizenship
- Intercultural second language teacher education
- Intercultural responsibility: transnational research and glocal critical citizenship
- Intercultural communicative competence development through telecollaboration and virtual exchange
- Social justice, diversity, and intercultural-global citizenship education in the global context
- Assessing intercultural language learning
Section IV: Language and intercultural communication in context
- Intercultural language teaching and learning in classroom practice
- Intercultural communication in the multicultural classroom
- The language and intercultural dimension of education abroad
- Intercultural business education: the role of critical theory and experiential learning
- Intercultural communication in professional and workplace settings
- Linguistically and culturally diverse project partnerships and teams
- Intercultural communication in health care settings
- Intercultural communication in legal contexts
- Intercultural communication in tourism
Section V: New Debates and future directions
- A global agenda for ethical language and intercultural communication research and practice
Index