Inter-cultural Communication at Work
Cultural Values in Discourse
- Author: Michael Clyne, University of Melbourne
- Date Published: August 1996
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521575096
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In this interdisciplinary study, Professor Clyne examines the impact of cultural values on discourse. Through an exploration of the role of verbal communication patterns in successful and unsuccessful communication, he sets out to integrate and develop a framework for a linguistics of inter-cultural communication. Professor Clyne draws on data derived from recordings of spontaneous communication in the Australian workplace between people of vastly differing backgrounds, notably European and Asian, who use English as a lingua franca. This study offers both a pragmatic and a discourse perspective, not simply analysing data but seeking to extend the theoretical model. The rapidly increasing use of English as a language of inter-cultural communication between non-native speakers means that the issues raised here will be of interest not only to linguists but also to those involved in education, business and industry.
Read more- Interdisciplinary treatment of the relation between cultural values and discourse
- Sensitive to educational context
- Broad range of cultural backgrounds represented
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- Date Published: August 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521575096
- length: 264 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.435kg
- contains: 17 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introducing the field
2. Setting up the project
3. Speech acts in inter-cultural discourse
4. Variation in communication patterns and inter-cultural communication breakdown in oral discourse
5. Written communication
6. Towards a linguistics of inter-cultural communication
7. Some theoretical and practical implications.
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