1st Edition

Intercultural Negotiations

Edited By Ian MacKenzie Copyright 2011
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

Intercultural communication is a daily occurrence for most people, as a result of transnational population flows and globalized media. The contributions to this volume propose reconceptualizations of orthodox accounts of intercultural communication based on supposed national cultural characteristics. They approach the subject from a variety of angles, including intercultural communication... Read more

1. Introduction: English Studies and Intercultural Negotiations Ian MacKenzie

2. ‘Culture’ and ‘Communication’ in Intercultural Communication Alan Durant & Ifan Shepherd

3. Social Intelligence: The Key to Intercultural Communication Daniela Wawra

4. Legitimacy, Comprehension and Empathy: The Importance of Recontextualisation in Intercultural Negotiations Tom Bartlett

5. Within and Beyond the Nation: Contemporary Irish and Galician Women Poets Manuela Palacios

6. Intercultural Negotiations in Conceptual Metaphor: Translating the Metaphors We Live By Enrico Monti

7. Negotiating Europe’s Lingua Franca Ian MacKenzie

Biography

Ian MacKenzie teaches linguistics, translation and English at the School of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Geneva.