Providing a comprehensive historical survey of language and intercultural communication studies, this handbook is an indispensable resource for students and scholars working in the fields of intercultural communication, applied linguistics, TESOL/TEFL and communication studies.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication provides a comprehensive historical survey of language and intercultural communication studies with a critical assessment of past and present theory, research, and practice, as well as an insight into future directions.
Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars from different parts of the world, this second edition offers updated chapters by returning authors and many new contributions on a broad range of topics, including reflexivity and criticality, translanguaging, and social justice in relation to intercultural communication.With an emphasis on contemporary, critical perspectives, this handbook showcases the varied range of issues, perspectives, and approaches that characterise this increasingly important field in todays globalised world.
Offering 34 chapters with examples from a variety of languages and international settings, this handbook is an indispensable resource for students and scholars working in the fields of intercultural communication, applied linguistics, TESOL/ TEFL, and communication studies.
Introduction and overview, Section I: Foundations of language and
intercultural communication studies, A global look at the history and
development of language and intercultural communication studies, Culture,
communication, context, and power, Language, identity, and intercultural
communication, Conceptualizing intercultural (communicative) competence and
intercultural citizenship, Reflexivity and criticality in language and
intercultural communication research and practice, Section II: Core Themes
and issues, Language, culture, and communication , Linguaculture and
transnationality: the cultural dimensions of language, Intercultural rhetoric
and intercultural communication, Interculturality and intercultural
pragmatics, Speech acts, facework, and politeness: sociopragmatics, facework,
and intercultural relationship-building, Translation, interpreting, and
intercultural communication, Language, identity, and intercultural
communication, Constructing the cultural Other: prejudice and stereotyping,
Intercultural contact, hybridity, and third space, Gender, language,
identity, and intercultural communication, Translanguaging, identity, and
migration, Language learning, identity, and intercultural communication in
contexts of conflict and insecurity, Language, intercultural (communicative)
competence, and intercultural citizenship, Language: an essential component
of intercultural communicative competence, From native speaker to
intercultural speaker and beyond: intercultural (communicative) competence in
foreign language education, World Englishes and intercultural communication,
Language education and global citizenship: decolonial and posthuman
perspectives through pedagogies of discomfort , Section III: Theory into
practice: Towards intercultural (communicative) competence and citizenship,
Intercultural second language teacher education, Intercultural
responsibility: transnational research and global critical citizenship,
Intercultural communicative competence development through telecollaboration
and virtual exchange, Social justice, diversity, and intercultural-global
citizenship education in the global context, Assessing intercultural language
learning, Section IV: Language and intercultural communication in context,
Intercultural language teaching and learning in classroom practice,
Intercultural communication in the multicultural classroom, The language and
intercultural dimension of education abroad, Intercultural business
education: the role of critical theory and experiential learning,
Intercultural communication in professional and workplace settings,
Linguistically and culturally diverse project partnerships and teams,
Intercultural communication in health care settings, Intercultural
communication in legal contexts, Intercultural communication in tourism,
Section V: New Debates and future directions, A global agenda for ethical
language and intercultural communication research and practice, Index.
Jane Jackson is Professor in the English Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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