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Intercultural Communication A Discourse Approach.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scollon, Ron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • 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 f ixed, 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 ethnography
  • Four 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 Communication
  • Using 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 Scripts
  • World 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