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Scott F. Kiesling is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. His work includes areas such as language and masculinities, sociolinguistic variation, discourse analysis, ethnicity in Australian English, and Pittsburgh English. His publications include Linguistic Variation and Change (2011) and Intercultural Discourse and Communication: The Essential Readings (Wiley-Blackwell 2005, co-edited with Christina Bratt Paulston). He is probably best known for his article “Dude” (2004), which appeared in the journal American Speech.
Christina Bratt Paulston is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. She served as chair of the department from 1974 to 1989 and as director of the English Language Institute from 1969 to 1998. Her numerous publications include Intercultural Discourse and Communication: The Essential Readings (Wiley-Blackwell 2005, co-edited with Scott F. Kiesling), Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings (Blackwell 2003, co-edited with G. Richard Tucker), and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Bilingual Education (1992).
Elizabeth S. Rangel is the Research Associate at Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC), a Cognitive Science Research Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research on early elementary language learners has focused on native language phonological interference in the reading acquisition process. Her most recent publications include chapters in the third edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education (2010), and Innovative Learning Environments from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (2010).
Preface xv
Introduction xvii
Part I Background 1
1 Intercultural Communication: An Overview 3Ingrid Piller
2 Perspectives on Intercultural Discourse and Communication 19Leila Monaghan
3 Cultures and Languages in Contact: Towards a Typology 37John Edwards
Part II Theoretical Perspectives 61
4 Interactional Sociolinguistics: Perspectives on Intercultural Communication 63John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz
5 Ethnography of Speaking 77Scott F. Kiesling
6 Critical Approaches to Intercultural Discourse and Communication 90Ryuko Kubota
7 Postmodernism and Intercultural Discourse: World Englishes 110Suresh Canagarajah
Part III Interactional Discourse Features 133
8 Turn-Taking and Intercultural Discourse and Communication 135Deborah Tannen
9 Silence 158Ikuko Nakane
10 Indirectness 180Michael Lempert
11 Politeness in Intercultural Discourse and Communication 205Janet Holmes
Part IV Intercultural Discourse Sites 229
12 Anglo–Arab Intercultural Communication 231Eirlys E. Davies and Abdelali Bentahila
13 Japan/Anglo-American Cross-Cultural Communication 252Steven Brown, Brenda Hayashi, and Kikue Yamamoto
14 “Those Venezuelans are so easy-going!” National Stereotypes and Self-Representations in Discourse about the Other 272Lars Fant
15 “Face,” Stereotyping, and Claims of Power: The Greeks and Turks in Interaction 292Maria Sifianou and Arın Bayraktaroğlu
16 Intercultural Communication and Vocational Language Learning in South Africa: Law and Healthcare 313Russell H. Kaschula and Pamela Maseko
17 Indigenous–Mestizo Interaction in Mexico 337Rocío Fuentes
Part V Interactional Domains 365
18 Translation and Intercultural Communication: Bridges and Barriers 367Eirlys E. Davies
19 Cultural Differences in Business Communication 389John Hooker
20 Intercultural Communication in the Law 408Diana Eades
21 Medicine 430Claudia V. Angelelli
22 Intercultural Discourse and Communication in Education 449Amanda J. Godley
23 Religion as a Domain of Intercultural Discourse 482Jonathan M. Watt
Index 496
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