5th Edition

Intercultural Communication An Advanced Resource Book for Students

By Adrian Holliday Copyright 2026
166 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Intercultural Communication  remains the definitive critical introduction to how we navigate cultural difference in everyday life. Now in its fifth edition, the book presents a bold reworking of its core structure, offering ten streamlined chapters that challenge essentialist thinking and centre the lived, shifting realities of intercultural encounters. Through a rich blend of fictionalised... Read more

Preface

Introduction: Using the book

Chapter 1: Initial concepts

Chapter 2: Conference colleagues: ‘I’m not Westernised’ (Identity)

Chapter 3: Student voices: ‘We are not all the same’ (Identity)

Chapter 4: Professional identities: ‘How we project ourselves’ (Identity)

Chapter 5: Encountering the Other next door (Othering)

Chapter 6: Stamping identity on new language (Othering)

Chapter 7: The dangers of thinking we know (Othering)

Chapter 8: Refugee experience: 'We have been different to what we are now' (Representation)

Chapter 9: Complex images: 'We have no idea how deeply we get things wrong' (Representation)

Chapter 10: The paradoxes of institutional life: things may be more complex and quite different to first appearances (Representation)

Biography

Adrian Holliday is Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is the author of Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural (Routledge, 2022) and co-author of Making Sense of the Intercultural (with Sara Amadasi; Routledge, 2020), with research interests spanning interculturality, qualitative methodology, and critical pedagogy.