The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication

A highly interdisciplinary overview of the wide spectrum of current international research in intercultural communication, including discussions of practical applications.

Guido Rings (Edited by), Sebastian Rasinger (Edited by)

9781108453103, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 March 2022

552 pages
24.2 x 16.8 x 3 cm, 0.95 kg

'Overall, this is a well-edited book, which deserves appreciation for its breadth and focus, and the way how it managed to transfer the debates of power relations to contemporary monocultural settings. Based on original contributions to the field, The Handbook takes a genuinely interdisciplinary approach and will certainly inspire future research in the field of intercultural communication.' Zsuzsanna Zsubrinszky, LINGUIST List

A highly interdisciplinary overview of the wide spectrum of current international research and professional practice in intercultural communication, this is a key reference book for students, lecturers and professionals alike. Key examples of contrastive, interactive, imagological and interlingual approaches are discussed, as well as the impact of cultural, economic and socio-political power hierarchies in cultural encounters, essential for contemporary research in critical intercultural communication and postcolonial studies. The Handbook also explores the spectrum of professional applications of that research, from intercultural teaching and training to the management of culturally mixed groups, facilitating use by professionals in related fields. Theories are introduced systematically using ordinary language explanations and examples, providing an engaging approach to readers new to the field. Students and researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, from cultural studies to linguistics, will appreciate this clear yet in-depth approach to an ever-evolving contemporary field.

Introduction Guido Rings and Sebastian M. Rasinger
Part I. Introducing Intercultural Communication: 1. What is culture? Werner Delanoy
2. What is intercultural communication? Jan D. ten Thije
3. Rethinking intercultural competence Jürgen Bolten
4. Interculturality or transculturality? Heinz Antor
Part II. Theoretical Approaches: 5. Critical intercultural communication and the digital environment Thomas K. Nakayama
6. From shared values to cultural dimensions: a comparative review Elizabeth A. Tuleja and Michael Schachner
7. Towards integrative intercultural communication Liisa Salo-Lee
8. The power of literature Birgit Neumann
9. Psychoanalytic approaches to memory and intercultural communication Jolanta A. Drzewiecka
10. Sociological approaches Uttaran Dutta and Judith N. Martin
11. Introducing intercultural ethics Richard Evanoff
Part III. Methods: 12. Decolonizing gender and intercultural communication in transnational contexts Lara Martin Lengel, Yannick Kluch and Ahmet Atay
13. Migration in the digital social mediasphere Peter Stockinger
14. Linguistic politeness Claus Ehrhardt
15. Contemporary literature and intercultural understanding Gesine Lenore Schiewer
16. Enhancing intercultural skills through storytelling Stephan Wolting
17. Cinema as intercultural communication Joanne Leal
18. Intercultural memory and violence in Jewish literature Verena Dolle
19. Intercultural communication in social work practice Antonio López Peláez and Emilio José Gómez Ciriano
20. Intercultural education in study abroad contexts Jane Jackson
21. Intercultural communication in the courtroom: the doctrine of public policy Bertil Cottier
Part IV. Application: 22. Intercultural communication in the context of the hyper-mobility of the school population within and outside Europe Emmanuelle le Pichon
23. Culture and management Marie-Thérèse Claes
24. Language and othering in contemporary Europe Anne Ife
25. Black British writing: Benjamin Zephaniah's didactic poetics Deirdre Osborne
26. Cultural encounters in contemporary Latin American cinema: intersections of transnationality Sarah Barrow
27. Religion and intercultural communication Margaret Littler
28 Irish-English cultural encounters in the diaspora Bronwen Walter
29. Intercultural dimensions in academic mobility: South Korea and Spain F. Manuel Montalbán, Francisco M. Llorente and Evelina Zurita
Part V. Assessment: 30. Defining, developing and assessing intercultural competence Darla K. Deardorff
31. Effects of social media use on cultural adaptation Stephen M. Croucher and Ming Li
32. A constructivist approach to assessing intercultural communication competence Milton J. Bennett.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [JHMC], Literary theory [DSA], Bilingualism & multilingualism [CFDM], Linguistics [CF]