Communicating Beyond Language: Everyday Encounters with Diversity

Communicating Beyond Language: Everyday Encounters with Diversity

by Betsy Rymes
Communicating Beyond Language: Everyday Encounters with Diversity

Communicating Beyond Language: Everyday Encounters with Diversity

by Betsy Rymes

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Overview

This new book offers a timely and lively appraisal of the concept of communicative repertoires, resources we use to express who we are when in dialogue with others. Each chapter describes and illustrates the communicative resources humans deploy daily, but rarely think about – not only the multiple languages we use, but how we dress or gesture, how we greet each other or tell stories, the nicknames we coin, and the mass media references we make – and how these resources combine in infinitely varied performances of identity. Rymes also discusses how our repertoires shift and grow over the course of a lifetime, as well how a repertoire perspective can lead to a rethinking of cultural diversity and human interaction, from categorizing people’s differences to understanding how our repertoires can expand and overlap with other, thereby helping us to find common ground and communicate in increasingly multicultural schools, workplaces, markets, and social spheres.

Rymes affirms the importance of the communicative repertoires concept with highly engaging discussions and contemporary examples from mass media, popular culture, and everyday life. The result is a fresh and exciting work that will resonate with students and scholars in sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, applied linguistics, and education.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415503402
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/14/2013
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Betsy Rymes is Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

1. Communicative Repertoires: An Introduction 2. Multilingualism 3. Routines 4. Names and Nicknames 5. Mass Media and Popular culture 6. Storytelling 7. Performances: Putting It All Together 8. New Words for the New World: The Implications of a Repertoire Perspective

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