About the Book

'A refreshingly rich and varied engagement with the notion of culture, inviting the reader to follow suit via an impressive range of original readings, supplemented by real-life experiences - packaged at once as dialogic and pedagogic activities.'
Srikant Sarangi, Cardiff University, UK

'This book is a useful reminder that culture is constructed, perpetuated and changed through small acts of communication in everyday life. It offers a clear, practical methodology for escaping the essentialization of people, behaviors and events... Most enjoyable are the illustrative anecdotes of intercultural (mis)communication presented for analysis and interpretation.'
Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Intercultural Communication:

• introduces the key theories of intercultural communication
• explores ways in which people communicate within and across social groups
• is built around three themes – identity, otherization and representation – which are followed and developed over the book’s three sections
• gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: James Paul Gee, James P Lantolf, Les Back, Richard Dyer, Jacques Derrida, and Alastair Pennycook.

Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Intercultural Communication is an essential resource for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.