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Intercultural communication : a discourse approach / Ron Scollon, Suzanne Wong Scollon, and Rodney H. Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scollon, Ronald, 1939-
- Series:
- Language in society (Oxford, England)
- Language in society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intercultural communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Summary:
- This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication. Grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, this work integrates theoretical principles and methodological advice, presenting students, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and unified resource. Features new original theory, expanded treatment of generations, gender and corporate and professional discourse Offers improved organization and added features for student and classroom use, including ad
- Contents:
- What is a discourse approach?
- How when and where to do things with language
- Interpersonal politeness and power
- Conversational inference : interpretation in spoken discourse
- Topic and face : inductive and deductive patterns in discourse
- Ideologies in discourse
- Forms of discourse
- Socialization
- Corporate and professional discourse
- Generational discourse
- Gender and sexuality discourse
- Doing "intercultural communication".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781118149690
- 1118149696
- 9781299313651
- 1299313655
- 9781118149683
- 1118149688
- OCLC:
- 794327521
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