Silence in Intercultural Communication: Perceptions and performance: 166 (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) - Hardcover

Nakane, Ikuko

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027254109 ISBN 13: 9789027254108

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2007

Synopsis

How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives, this book shows how silence is used, perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication – linguistic, cognitive and sociopsychological – and fundamental levels of social organization – individual, situational and sociocultural - the book explores the intricate relationship between perceptions and performance of silence in interaction involving Japanese and Australian participants. Through a combination of macro- and micro- ethnographic analyses of university seminar interactions, the stereotypes of the ‘silent East’ is reconsidered, and the tension between local and sociocultural perspectives of intercultural communication is addressed. The book has relevance to researchers and students in intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis and applied linguistics.

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Synopsis

Silence plays a crucial role in language communication within a language, but Nakane (U. of Melbourne) investigates how it works in communication across cultures, in which it almost certainly has different meanings. She explores the relationship between the perception and performance of silence in interaction involving Japanese and Australian parti

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027254109
• ISBN 13: 9789027254108
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256