Language inequality and distortion in intercultural communication : a critical theory approach / Yukio Tsuda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsuda, Yukio.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 7:7.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; 7:7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Intercultural communication.

Civilization, Western.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (109 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages. It provides a four-step Critical Theory analysis of language-based inequality and distortion between speakers of a few dominant languages, especially English, and speakers of minority languages in the context of international and intercultural communication. Based on a theoretical framework of "Distorted Communication" developed by J. Habermas and C. Müller, the analysis focuses on a critical description, definition, and interpretatio

Contents:

LANGUAGE INEQUALITY ANDDISTORTION ININTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIONA CRITICAL THEORY APPROACH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of contents; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION; 1. CRITICAL THEORY APPROACH TO LANGUAGE INEQUALITIES; 1.1. Critical theory and scientific inquiries; 1.2. A critique of the positivist approach; 1.3. Critical theory; 1.3.1. Beginnings and developments; 1.3.2. Critical theory: Assumpiions and goals; 1.4. A critical theory approach to language inequalities

2. LANGUAGE INEQUALITY IN DISTORTED INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION2.1. Distorted communication; 2.1.1. Habermas and distorted communication; 2.1.2. Mueller and distorted communication; 2.2. Distorted intercultural communication; 2.2.1. Directed intercultural communication; 2.2.1.1. Somali and colonial languages: Critical description; 2.2.1.3. Nation-building and directed intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation; 2.2.2. Arrested intercultural communication; 2.2.2.1. Gastarbeiter in West Germany: Critical Description

2.2.2.2. Psychology of bilinguals in arrested intercultural communication: Critical definition2.2.2.3. Distortions in arrested intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation; 2.2.3. Constrainedintercultural communication; 2.2.3.1. The spread of English as an international language: Its merits; 2.2.3.2. Constrained intercultural communicaiion: Critical description and definition.; 2.2.3.3. Constrained intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation; 2.3. Summary; 3. THE IDEOLOGY OF CIVILIZATION AND WESTERN DOMINATION; 3.1. The critique of ideology

3.2. The genesis of the ideology of ""civilization""3.3. Expansion of the Western ""civilization""; 3.4. Structural domination of the Western ""civilization""; 3.4.1. Material control; 3.4.2. Informational control; 3.4.3. Ideological control; 3.5. Summary; 4. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-87972-6

9786613721037

90-272-7928-4

OCLC:

796384099