Intercultural communication : a discourse approach / Ron Scollon, Suzanne Wong Scollon, and Rodney H. Jones.

The third edition of this lively introduction serves as a guide to the main concepts and problems of intercultural communication. As the field has evolved, new trends and directions in research have emerged; this fully revised edition explores many of these while maintaining the core of the classic...

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Main Author: Scollon, Ronald, 1939-
Other Authors: Scollon, Suzanne B. K., Jones, Rodney H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Language in society ; 21
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Table of 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."