• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Understanding intercultural communication : negotiating a grammar of culture
  • Contributor: Holliday, Adrian [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013
  • Extent: 1 online resource (1 v.); ill
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780203492635; 0203492633
  • Keywords: Intercultural communication ; Communication and culture ; Culture conflict ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; local
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from title page (viewed September 6, 2013)
  • Description: In this book, Adrian Holliday provides a practical framework to help students analyse intercultural communication. Underpinned by a new grammar of culture developed by Holliday, this book will incorporate examples and activities to enable students and professionals to investigate culture on very new, entirely non-essentialist lines. This book will address key issues in intercultural communication including: the positive contribution of people from diverse cultural backgrounds the politics of Self and Other which promote negative stereotyping the basis for a bottom-up approach to globalization in which Periphery cultural realities can gain voice and ownership Written by a key researcher in the field, this book presents cutting edge research and a framework for analysis which will make it essential reading for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students studying intercultural communication and professionals in the field.