Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication : a Critical Theory Approach.

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This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages. It provides a four-step Critical Theory analysis of language-based inequality and distortion between speakers of a few dominant languages,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tsuda, Yukio
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; 7:7.
Temas:
Civilization, Western.
Intercultural communication.
Sociolinguistics.
Civilisation occidentale.
Sociolinguistique.
sociolinguistics.
Civilization, Western
Intercultural communication
Sociolinguistics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • LANGUAGE INEQUALITY ANDDISTORTION ININTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIONA CRITICAL THEORY APPROACH; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of contents; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION; 1. CRITICAL THEORY APPROACH TO LANGUAGE INEQUALITIES; 1.1. Critical theory and scientific inquiries; 1.2. A critique of the positivist approach; 1.3. Critical theory; 1.3.1. Beginnings and developments; 1.3.2. Critical theory: Assumpiions and goals; 1.4. A critical theory approach to language inequalities.
  • 2. LANGUAGE INEQUALITY IN DISTORTED INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION2.1. Distorted communication; 2.1.1. Habermas and distorted communication; 2.1.2. Mueller and distorted communication; 2.2. Distorted intercultural communication; 2.2.1. Directed intercultural communication; 2.2.1.1. Somali and colonial languages: Critical description; 2.2.1.3. Nation-building and directed intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation; 2.2.2. Arrested intercultural communication; 2.2.2.1. Gastarbeiter in West Germany: Critical Description.
  • 2.2.2.2. Psychology of bilinguals in arrested intercultural communication: Critical definition2.2.2.3. Distortions in arrested intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation; 2.2.3. Constrainedintercultural communication; 2.2.3.1. The spread of English as an international language: Its merits; 2.2.3.2. Constrained intercultural communicaiion: Critical description and definition.; 2.2.3.3. Constrained intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation; 2.3. Summary; 3. THE IDEOLOGY OF CIVILIZATION AND WESTERN DOMINATION; 3.1. The critique of ideology.
  • 3.2. The genesis of the ideology of civilization3.3. Expansion of the Western civilization
  • 3.4. Structural domination of the Western civilization
  • 3.4.1. Material control; 3.4.2. Informational control; 3.4.3. Ideological control; 3.5. Summary; 4. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.

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