Principles of intercultural communication / Igor Klyukanov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klyukanov, Igor, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication.

Physical Description:

ix, 260 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Summary:

"Now in a second edition, this book guides students in developing Intercultural Communication Competence through its accessible style and unique theoretical framework of ten interconnected principles. Thoroughly revised and updated with new case studies and examples and a sharper focus on practical application, the book engages students in active learning by showing them how these principles come to play in their intercultural journeys. It features detailed case studies that are accompanied by guiding questions that help students link theory to their daily lives. At the end of each chapter, the "Side Trips" discussion prompts encourage students to think more critically about the issues as they are presented. Suitable for upper-level or graduate intercultural communication courses within communication and linguistics departments"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Organization of the Book: An Approach to Intercultural Communication

Goal of the Book: Developing Intercultural Communication Competence

1. Punctuation Principle: `What's in a Line?'

Chapter Outline

1. Introducing the Problem Question

2. Defining Basic Terms

2.1. Culture

2.2. Communication

3. Identity as Group Membership

3.1. Cultural Identity as Reflective Self-image

4. Introducing the Punctuation Principle

4.1. Boundary Lines as Conceptualizations

4.2. Constructive and Destructive Boundary Lines

4.3. Boundary Fit in Intercultural Communication

5. The Punctuation Principle Defined

6. Case Study: `Peace Walls' in Northern Ireland

7. Side Trips

7.1. What Is a `Person of Color'?

7.2. Human Towers in Catalonia

7.3. Intangible Cultural Heritage List

2. Uncertainty Principle: `Let the Mystery Be!'

2. From Ontology to Epistemology

2.1. Objective Stance

2.2. Subjective Stance

2.3. `Two Sides of the Same Coin'

3. Knowledge as Inherently Uncertain

4. Introducing the Uncertainty Principle

4.1. Uncertainty and Horizon of Knowledge

4.2. Uncertainty and Dis-closure

4.3. Certainty in Uncertainty

5. The Uncertainty Principle Defined

6. Case Study: `The Shock of the Other'

7.1. Uncertainty and Intercultural Crisis Communication

7.2. `A Person Who Has No Horizon'

7.3. `There Is Strangeness Hidden in the Familiar'

3. Performativity Principle: `The Deed Is Everything'

2. Language as Representation

2.1. Verbal Language

2.2. Nonverbal Language

3. How to do Things with Words

-and Nonverbals

3.1. Language Rules

4. Introducing the Performativity Principle

4.1. The Dramaturgy of Performativity: From Rules to Roles

4.2. Levels of Performance

4.3. Performativity as Reiterative Process

4.4. Hospitality

5. The Performativity Principle Defined

6. Case Study: `Translation zone(s): A stuttering'

7.1. Free Play of the Saw

7.2. Intercultural Travel Blogs

7.3. `Whiteness Workshops'

4. Positionality Principle: `It All Depends'

2. From Beliefs about the World to the Worldview

3. Cultural Gaze: Looking Out, Looking In

3.1. Cultural Gaze and Ethnocentrism

4. Introducing the Positionality Principle

4.1. Positionality as Grounding

4.2. Positionality and Authority

4.3. Positionality as Engagement

5. The Positionality Principle Defined

6. Case Study: `The Kosher Phone'

7.1. Positive Cultural Appropriation?

7.2. Women's Ability to Travel in Saudi Arabia

7.3. `An Introduction to Dating' Course in South Korea

5. Commensurability Principle: `It Is Everybody's World'

2. Linguistic Relativity

2.1. Two Versions of Linguistic Relativity

3. Cultures as `Enclaves of Mutual Incomprehension'?

4. Introducing the Commensurability Principle

4.1. The Nature of Commensurability

4.2. The Forms and Levels of Commensurability

4.3. The Implications of Commensurability

5. The Commensurability Principle Defined

6. Case Study: `The Globalization of Chinese Medicine: The Case of Acupuncture'

7.1. Language and Money

7.2. Chinese and American Toddlers

7.3. Translate Mobile App

6. Continuum Principle: `Having It Both Ways'

2. Global Cultural Dimensions: How Many?

3. Introducing the Continuum Principle

3.1. The Digital and the Analog

3.2. Continuum as Topological Space

3.3. Beyond Binary Thinking

4. The Continuum Principle Defined

5. Case Study: `The 1999 Coca-Cola Scare in Europe'

6. Side Trips

6.1. Cultural Dimensions and Investment Decisions

6.2. Gender and Our Brains

6.3. Intercultural Communication on Web Sites

7. Pendulum Principle: `Panta Rliei'

2. Tensions in Intercultural Communication

2.1. Ethnolinguistic Vitality

3. `Voice' in Intercultural Communication

4. Introducing the Pendulum Principle

4.1. The Contradictory Nature of Intercultural Communication

4.2. Intercultural Communication as Praxis

4.3. Intercultural Communication and Change

5. The Pendulum Principle Defined

6. Case Study: `Dialectics of Colonial Encounter: Interacting with the Kobon'

7.1. Speaking Spanish at a Border

7.2. Linguistic Landscapes and Cultural Transformations

7.3. In Montreal, a Berlin Wall of the Mind?

8. Transaction Principle: `More Than a Game'

2. Approaching Conflict: Roots

2.1. Two Sides of Conflict

3. Approaching Conflict: Routes

4. Introducing the Transaction Principle

4.1. Intercultural Transaction: Perception and Reality

4.2. Intercultural Communication as Negotiation Zone

4.3. Back to the Future: From Positions to Interests

5. The Transaction Principle Defined

6. Case Study: `The Wall of Death': A Conflict Between Japanese and Western Cultures

7.1. Spain and Catalonia in Conflict

7.2. Conflict over a Beauty Pageant

7.3. Managing Intractable Conflict

9. Synergy Principle: `2 + 2 = 5 (or More!)'

2. Perception: `Seizing the World'

2.1. Stereotype: Are All Swans White?

2.2. Prejudice: The United States and `the Rest-of-the-World Soccer Cup'

3. Escaping Suspicion and Fear

4. Introducing the Synergy Principle

4.1. Intercultural Synergy and Non-Summativity

4.2. Toward Pareto Optimality

4.3. Intercultural Synergy and the Flow Dynamics

5. Synergy Principle Defined

6. Case Study: `The Case of AMD: Unleashing Intercultural Potential'

7.1. Stereotypes in Hollywood Movies

7.2. Can AI be Biased?

7.3. Addressing Prejudiced Statements

10. Sustainability Principle: `All for One, and One for All'

2. Ethics and Intercultural Communication

2.1. Approaches to Ethics in Intercultural Communication

3. Introducing the Sustainability Principle

3.1. General Nature of Sustainability: Thinking about Forever

3.2. Strategies of Sustainability: Tolerance, Trust, Resistance

3.3. Formula for Intercultural Sustainability

4. The Sustainability Principle Defined

5. Case Study: `An Ethics of Cultural Exchange'

6.1. Seesaws at the U.S.

-Mexico Border

6.2. Cultures of Resistance Network

6.3. The Ship of Tolerance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Klyukanov, Igor. Principles of intercultural communication

ISBN:

9780367373887

0367373882

9780367373870

0367373874

OCLC:

1142910198

Publisher Number:

99987342544