Intercultural Communication : A Discourse Approach.
Material type: TextSeries: Singapore McGraw Hill 2018Edition: 6th edDescription: 1 online resource (333 pages)ISBN: 9781259071454Subject(s): Dialogue analysis | Discourse analysis | Intercultural communication | Intercultural communication | Intercultural communicationDDC classification: 306.44 Online resources: Click here to access onlineItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Intercultural Communication; Contents; Figures; Series Editor's Preface; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; 1: What Is a Discourse Approach?; The Problem with Culture; Culture is a verb; Discourse; Discourse systems; What Is Communication?; Language is ambiguous by nature; We must draw inferences about meaning; Our inferences tend to be fixed, not tentative; Our inferences are drawn very quickly; Interdiscourse communication and English as a global language; What This Book Is Not; Researching Interdiscourse Communication
Four processes of ethnographyFour types of data in ethnographic research; Choosing a site of investigation; Discussion Questions; References for Further Study; 2: How, When, and Where to Do Things with Language; Sentence Meaning and Speaker's Meaning; Speech Acts, Speech Events, and Speech Situations; Grammar of Context; Seven main components for a grammar of context; Scene; Key; Participants; Message form; Sequence; Co-occurrence patterns, marked and unmarked; Manifestation; Variation in context grammar; "Culture" and Context; High context and low context situations
Researching Interdiscourse CommunicationUsing the "grammar of context" as a preliminary ethnographic audit; Discussion Questions; References for Further Study; 3: Interpersonal Politeness and Power; Communicative Style or Register; Face; The "self" as a communicative identity; The Paradox of Face: Involvement and Independence; Politeness strategies of involvement and independence; Linguistic strategies of involvement: some examples; Linguistic strategies of independence: some examples; Face Systems; Three Face Systems: Deference, Solidarity, and Hierarchy; Deference face system (−P, +D)
Solidarity face system (−P, −D)Hierarchical face system (+P, +/−D); Miscommunication; Variations in Face Systems; Social Organization and Face Systems; Kinship; The concept of the self; Ingroup-outgroup relationships; Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft; Researching Interdiscourse Communication; Exploring the interaction order; Discussion Questions; References for Further Study; 4: Conversational Inference: Interpretation in Spoken Discourse; How Do We Understand Discourse?; Cohesive Devices: Lexical and Grammatical; Reference; Verb forms; Conjunction; The causal conjunction "because"
Cognitive Schemata and ScriptsWorld knowledge; Adjacency sequences; Prosodic Patterning: Intonation and Timing; Intonation; Timing; Metacommunication; Non-sequential processing; Interactive Intelligence; Researching Interdiscourse Communication; Collecting and analyzing spoken data; Reconfiguring default settings; Discussion Questions; References for Further Study; 5: Topic and Face: Inductive and Deductive Patterns in Discourse; What Are You Talking About?; Topic, Turn Exchange, and Timing; The call-answer-topic adjacency sequence; The call; The answer; The introduction of the caller's topic
Deductive Monologues
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