Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction - Hardcover

Piller, Ingrid

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474412904 ISBN 13: 9781474412902

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Combining perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, the second edition of this popular textbook provides students with an up-to-date overview of the field of intercultural communication. Ingrid Piller explains communication in context using two main approaches. The first treats cultural identity, difference and similarity as discursive constructions. The second, informed by bilingualism studies, highlights the use and prestige of different languages and language varieties as well as the varying access that speakers have to them.

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About the Author

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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"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."

Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University

Combining discourse analytic and sociolinguistic perspectives, this introduction provides students with a comprehensive, up-to-date and critical overview of the field of intercultural communication.

Ingrid Piller explains communication in context using two main approaches. The first treats cultural identity, difference and similarity as discursive constructions. The second, informed by bilingualism studies, highlights the use and prestige of different languages and language varieties as well as the varying access that speakers have to them.

Linguistics students will find this book a useful tool for studying language and globalization as well as applied linguistics.

Key features include:

• Case studies from around the world
• Learning objectives, key points, exercises and suggestions for further reading in each chapter
• Reader-friendly, accessible style

Ingrid Piller is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She has published widely on the sociolinguistics of language learning, multilingualism and intercultural communication and blogs about her research at www.languageonthemove.org.

"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."

Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University

Combining discourse analytic and sociolinguistic perspectives, this introduction provides students with a comprehensive, up-to-date and critical overview of the field of intercultural communication.

Ingrid Piller explains communication in context using two main approaches. The first treats cultural identity, difference and similarity as discursive constructions. The second, informed by bilingualism studies, highlights the use and prestige of different languages and language varieties as well as the varying access that speakers have to them.

Linguistics students will find this book a useful tool for studying language and globalization as well as applied linguistics.

Key features include:

• Case studies from around the world
• Learning objectives, key points, exercises and suggestions for further reading in each chapter
• Reader-friendly, accessible style

Ingrid Piller is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She has published widely on the sociolinguistics of language learning, multilingualism and intercultural communication and blogs about her research at www.languageonthemove.org.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1474412904
• ISBN 13: 9781474412902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240