Language and Intercultural Communication in the New Era (Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113891083X ISBN 13: 9781138910836

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Studies of  intercultural communication in applied linguistics initially focused on miscommunication, mainly between native and non-native speakers of English. The advent of the twenty-first century has witnessed, however, a revolution in the contexts and contents of intercultural communication; technological advances such as chat rooms, emails, personal weblogs, Facebook, Twitter, mobile text messaging on the one hand, and the accelerated pace of people’s international mobility on the other have given a new meaning to the term 'intercultural communication'.

Given the remarkable growth in the prevalence of intercultural communication among people from many cultural backgrounds, and across many contexts and channels, conceptual divides such as 'native/non-native' are now almost irrelevant. This has caused the power attached to English and native speaker-like English to lose much of its automatic domination. Such developments have provided new opportunities, as well as challenges, for the study of intercultural communication and its increasingly complex nature. This book showcases recent studies in the field in a multitude of contexts to enable a collective effort towards advancements in the area.

About this title

Review:

'Sharifian and Jamarani have assembled a stellar group of scholars writing on the cutting edge of research that synthesizes the combined forces of language, culture, identity, and social media.' – R.S. Zaharna, American University, USA

About the Author:

Farzad Sharifian is Professor and Director of the Language and Society Centre at Monash University, Australia.

Maryam Jamarani is Associate Lecturer at University of Queensland, Australia, and a research fellow at Monash University, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 113891083X
• ISBN 13: 9781138910836
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Sharifian Farzad