2nd Edition

Understanding Intercultural Communication Negotiating a Grammar of Culture

By Adrian Holliday Copyright 2019
208 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Understanding Intercultural Communication provides a practical framework to help readers to understand intercultural communication and to solve intercultural problems. Each chapter exemplifies the everyday intercultural through ethnographic narratives in which people make sense of each other in home, work and study locations. Underpinned by a grammar of culture developed by the author, this... Read more

List of figures

Preface

The grammar of culture and reconstructed ethnographic narratives

Reflection

Further reference

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1: The grammar of culture

Chapter 2: Cultural practices

Chapter 3: Investigating culture

Chapter 4: Constructing culture

Chapter 5: Dialogue with structure

Chapter 6: Grand narratives of nation and history

Chapter 7: Discourses of culture

Chapter 8: Prejudice

Chapter 9: Cultural travel and innovation

 

References

Index

Biography

Adrian Holliday is Professor of Applied Linguistics & Intercultural Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

'This extensively revised second edition reprises Holliday’s ground-breaking approach to understanding intercultural communication. Recast in pellucid prose, its wide-ranging grammar of culture remains grounded in acutely observed accounts of personal interaction. Each chapter is now enhanced with a comprehensive, yet synoptic, bang-up-to-date guide to related literature.'

Malcolm N. MacDonald, University of Warwick, UK

 

'This revised edition of Adrian Holliday’s landmark publication, Understanding Intercultural Communication: Negotiating a Grammar of Culture, develops anew his paradigm-shifting concepts of interculturality and discourses of culture through reflective involvement on the part of the reader. The book will certainly have a galvanizing influence on the study of intercultural communication and language education.'

Iga Lehman, University of Social Sciences, Warsaw, Poland