Achieving Understanding: Discourse in Intercultural Encounters (Language in Social Life) - Hardcover

Katharina Bremer; Celia Roberts

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0582086450 ISBN 13: 9780582086456

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Broeder, Peter, etc., Bremer, Katharina, Roberts, Celia, Vasseur, M.-T., Simonot, Margaret

About this title

About the Author

Peter Broeder is Assistant Professor at Tilburg University where his research involves unravelling processes of language change among ethnic minority groups.
Jaap Murre is a Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam. Previously he worked as a scientist at the Applied Psychology Unit of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge. Dr. Murre also heads a research group sponsored by a PIONIER grant from the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).

Review

"This is another outstanding text in Longman's Language in Social Life Series. It should be purchased and read at the earliest possible opportunity."International Journal of Bilingualism"Anyone interested in setting up a research project on cultural pragmatics...will find everything they have ever wanted to know in Achieving Understanding. This is a substantial volume...because of the breadth and length of the study."ELT Journal"A well-conceived research design, an interesting perspective, and a data-driven approach make 'Achieving Understanding' a thorough exploration of its topics. It will certainly be of interest to researchers in intercultural communication, critical linguistics, and second language acquisition, but specialists in (mis)understanding will find it indispensable....the authors are to be commended for providing not only a well-crafted design, but also a theory that has enormous heuristic potential."Discourse and Society

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0582086450
• ISBN 13: 9780582086456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288