Cultures In Conversation

Download or read book Cultures in Conversation written by Donal Carbaugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how linguistic differences can lead to cultural misunderstandings. For use in communication/linguistics courses and scholarship in those areas.

Download or read book Communication across Cultures written by Heather Bowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication across Cultures explores how cultural context affects the use and (mis)interpretation of language. It provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to language and language variation in intercultural communication by drawing on both classic and cutting-edge research from pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and politeness studies. This new edition has been comprehensively updated to incorporate recent research, with an emphasis on the fluid and emergent practice of intercultural communication. It provides increased coverage of variation in language within and between cultures, drawing on real-world examples of spoken and written communication. The authors review classic concepts like 'face', 'politeness' and 'speech acts', but also critique these concepts and introduce more recent approaches. Each chapter provides a set of suggested readings, questions and exercises to enable the student to work through concepts and consolidate their understanding of intercultural communication. This is an excellent resource for students of linguistics and related disciplines.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Difficult Conversations written by Gretchen Hirsch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to tackle sensitive subjects Covering both professional and personal situations, this guide examines ways to approach and handle conversations that are often put off or avoided altogether. The most comprehensive book of its kind, it provides all the information you need to approach difficult conversations with confidence, avoid blaming, overcome defensiveness, and make better decisions. • The only book on the market covering difficult conversations in both the workplace and one’s personal life • Can be read cover to cover or used as a quick reference guide • Reviewed and approved by the Program Chair of Organizational Communication at Franklin University and former professor of Applied Linguistics at Harvard University

Download or read book Communication in Personal Relationships Across Cultures written by William B. Gudykunst and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-08-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication in Personal Relationships Across Cultures examines the communication practices of non-Western cultures. The international cast of contributors assembled here leaves behind the biases typical of most research and theorizing done in this area of communication and enables the reader to develop a thorough understanding of how people communicate in non-Western societies. Chapters focus on communication practices in China, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Iran, Africa, and totalitarian societies. Through both emic and etic approaches, this groundbreaking volume explores how members of a culture understand their own communication, and compares the similarities and differences of specific aspects of communication across cultures. --From publisher's description.

Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Communication written by Wolfgang Donsbach and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise volume presents key concepts and entries from the twelve-volume ICA International Encyclopedia of Communication (2008), condensing leading scholarship into a practical and valuable single volume. Based on the definitive twelve-volume IEC, this new concise edition presents key concepts and the most relevant headwords of communication science in an A-Z format in an up-to-date manner Jointly published with the International Communication Association (ICA), the leading academic association of the discipline in the world Represents the best and most up-to-date international research in this dynamic and interdisciplinary field Contributions come from hundreds of authors who represent excellence in their respective fields An affordable volume available in print or online

Download or read book Inter/Cultural Communication written by Anastacia Kurylo and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, students are more familiar with other cultures than ever before because of the media, Internet, local diversity, and their own travels abroad. As such, traditional intercultural communication textbooks which focus solely on the ′differences′ approach aren′t truly effective for today′s students, nor for this field′s growth. Using a social constructionist framework—which explores how culture is constructed and produced in the moments in which it is experienced—Inter/Cultural Communication provides today′s students with a rich understanding of how culture and communication affect and effect each other. Inter/Cultural Communication improves upon current textbooks in four significant ways: (1) It provides a differences approach and a social constructionist approach; (2) It explores the consequences of cultural moments on immediate communication and on larger scale social issues; (3) It is descriptive, not prescriptive, of how culture is communicated; and (4) It introduces intercultural topics, rather than interpersonal topics. Weaving multiple approaches together in order to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of cultural and intercultural communication, this text allows them to become more aware of their own identities and how powerful those identities can be in facilitating change—both in their own lives and in the lives of others. In addition, the book will help students deal with unfamiliar cultures and understand those with whom they come in contact when they travel, in their communities, in the workplace, in their home, and online.

Download or read book Cultures and Communication written by Deddy Mulyana, Prof., Dr., M.Pd. and published by Rosda. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a increasingly globalized world, the ways in which people interact across cultures has a critical influence on the health and wellbeing of both individuals and society more generally. In this book, Professor Deddy Mulyana considers a range of theoretical approaches to the the issue of corss-cultural communication and provides a fascinating case study of adult Indonesian acculturation in and Australian city. His research reveals the complex ways in which this froup of migrants responds to a new society and develops new identities in the process. - Prof. Dr. Rae Frances, Dean - Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Australia. Buku Persembahan Penerbit Rosda