Interpreting Cultural Differences: Challenge of Intercultural Communication
When speaker and listener come from different cultural backgrounds, the potential for the message to mean different things is increased greatly. The book explores the cultural differences that affect us all in the way we act, relate to others, think and learn. It addresses ways of improving our individual competencies, fusing some of the major ideas from the great range of scholarship on intercultural communication which has been produced over the last few decades.
Narratives of Place, Belonging and Language: An Intercultural Perspective (Language and Globalization)Examining identity in relation to globalization and migration, this book uses narratives and memoirs from contemporary authors who have lived "in-between" two or more languages. It explores the human desire to find one's "own place" in new cultural contexts, and looks at the role of language in shaping a sense of belonging in society.
As the workplace continues to become more ethnically diverse, the need for training materials that address the changes is needed on many levels of education. Intercultural Communication shifts the focus solely away from ethnicity and color by helping individuals to understand the many ways we may all differ from one another culturally (i.e. more women in the workplace, a higher incidence of older workers, a greater number of individuals who communicate openly about their disabilities, and a greater diversity in class background).
Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures (6th Edition)
Present a structured coverage regarding theory along with skills, presents readers intercultural abilities with a well-informed background and capabilities necessary to succeed in a multicultural environment nowadays. The mixture involving both useful and theoretical, that book audience will enjoy examining carefully learned and fashionable coverage from the impact involving technologies with intercultural communication and interpersonal deals revolutionary.
In Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign renowned Brecht scholar Antony Tatlow uses drama to investigate cultural crossings and to show how intercultural readings or performances question the settled assumptions we bring to interpretations of familiar texts. Through a “textual anthropology” Tatlow examines the interplay between interpretations of Shakespeare and readings of Brecht, whose work he rereads in the light of theories of the social subject from Nietzsche to Derrida and in relation to East Asian culture, as well as practices within Chinese and Japanese theater that shape their versions of Shakespearean drama.
