Understanding Intercultural Communication: Negotiating a Grammar of Culture

by Adrian Holliday

Overview

Understanding Intercultural Communication provides a practical framework to help readers to understand intercultural communication and to solve intercultural problems. Each chapter exemplifies the everyday intercultural through ethnographic narratives in which people make sense of each other in home, work and study locations. Underpinned by a grammar of culture developed by the author, this book addresses key issues in intercultural communication, including:

• the positive contribution of people from diverse cultural backgrounds;
• the politics of Self and Other which promote negative stereotyping;
• the basis for a de-centred approach to globalisation in which periphery cultural realities can gain voice and ownership.

Written by a leading researcher in the field, the new edition of this important text has been revised to invite the reader to reflect and develop their own intercultural and research strategies, and updated to include new ideas that have emerged in Holliday’s own work and elsewhere. This book is a key resource for academics, students and practitioners in intercultural communication and related fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815352389
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/11/2018
Edition description:	New
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adrian Holliday is Professor of Applied Linguistics & Intercultural Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

Table of Contents

List of figures

Preface

The grammar of culture and reconstructed ethnographic narratives

Reflection

Further reference

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1: The grammar of culture

Chapter 2: Cultural practices

Chapter 3: Investigating culture

Chapter 4: Constructing culture

Chapter 5: Dialogue with structure

Chapter 6: Grand narratives of nation and history

Chapter 7: Discourses of culture

Chapter 8: Prejudice

Chapter 9: Cultural travel and innovation

References

Index

Editorial Reviews

"Through extending his seminal notion of ‘small cultures’ to a much grander ‘grammar of culture’, this is much more than a textbook in intercultural communication. Lucidly written and illustrated by fine-grained personal vignettes, Holliday provides a refreshing synthesis of culture and the intercultural which will both engage interested readers, and illuminate experienced researchers." - Malcolm N. MacDonald, University of Warwick, UK

"Understanding Intercultural Communication is essentially a textbook aimed at helping students analyze cultural interactions from non-essentialist perspectives. The process is supported by ethnographic narratives within the text and by a variety of online access tools and activities." - George F. Simons, Founder of www.diversophy.com

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