Culture in Communication: Analyses of Intercultural Situations (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)

This volume is dedicated to questions arising in linguistic, sociological and anthropological analyses of intercultural encounters. It aims at presenting new theoretical and methodological aspects of Intercultural Communication, focusing on issues such as ideology and hegemonial attitudes, communicative genres and culture specific repertoires of genres, the theory of contextualization and nonverbal (prosodic, gestural, mimic) contextualization cues. The collected articles, which share an interactive view of language, focus on the methodological possibilities of explanatory analyses of intercultural communication. They address the question of how participants in inter-cultural communication (re)construct cultural differences and cultural identities. Empirical analyses go hand-in-hand with the discussion of methodological and theoretical aspects of interculturality and the relationship of language and culture. Communication, contexts and culture / Hubert Knoblauch Contextualization and ideology in intercultural communication / John J. Gumperz Asymmetries of knowledge in intercultural communication / Susanne Günthner and Thomas Luckmann Three ways of analysing communication between East and West Germans as intercultural communication / Peter Auer and Friederike Kern Cooperation, collaboration and pleasure in work / Jenny Cook-Gumperz The making of a witness / Marco Jacquemet Intercultural negotiation / Jochen Rehbein Constructing misunderstanding as a cultural event / Volker Hinnenkamp Inter- and Intra-cultural aspects of dialogue-interpreting / Frank Ernst Müller The conversational construction of social identity in native/non-native interaction / Franca Orletti External appropriations as a strategy for participating in intercultural multi-party conversations / Gabriele Pallotti. An analysis of the extent to which culture plays a part in communication. This title explores topics such as context and culture in theoretical issues in intercultural communication, and incorporates a number of case studies from East and West German communication, collaboration and pleasure at work, and negotiation to address the relation of culture to communication [edited By] Aldo Di Luzio, Susanne Günther, Franca Orletti. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. ISBN-13: 9781556199905 John,Benjamins,Publishing,Co John Benjamins Publishing Co