Intercultural Communication by Ingrid Piller
A comprehensive critical introduction to the field of Intercultural Communication from a sociolinguistic and discourse-analytic perspective.
Ingrid Piller's book will be seen as a landmark in a 'second wave' of studies on intercultural communicationSolidly grounded in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, clearly and accessibly written and compellingly argued, it revives a field not always well served by its scholars, and we are now at last in a position to see intercultural communication for what it is: a historically situated and politically sensitive complex of communication modes, analysis of which requires attention to the smallest details as well as to the biggest things in the world - globalization processes. -- Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University Ingrid Piller's book will be seen as a landmark in a 'second wave' of studies on intercultural communication. Solidly grounded in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, clearly and accessibly written and compellingly argued, it revives a field not always well served by its scholars, and we are now at last in a position to see intercultural communication for what it is: a historically situated and politically sensitive complex of communication modes, analysis of which requires attention to the smallest details as well as to the biggest things in the world - globalization processes.
Ingrid Piller is Humboldt Professor for Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan at Hamburg University in Germany and Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her books, including Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice (2016) and Life in a New Language (2024), have won numerous awards and been translated into multiple languages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748632848 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748632840 |
| Title | Intercultural Communication |
| Author | Ingrid Piller |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2011-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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