1st Edition

Interculturality and the Munchausen Effect On the Need to Rethink the Speaking Subject and Community in Interaction

By Ashley Simpson Copyright 2025
138 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a conceptual intervention for Language and Intercultural Communication studies by advocating for a critical interdiscursive approach to research on interculturality. The volume addresses two interrelated theses in research on interculturality; namely that the speaking subject in interaction reproduces the egocentrism and phonocentrism of the Munchausen Effect. In considering... Read more

Contents

 

Chapter 1: Introduction

 

 

Chapter 2: Interculturality and The Problem of The Speaking Subject

 

 

Chapter 3: Interculturality, Representation and The Munchausen Effect

 

 

Chapter 4: Interculturality and Commodification: The Fetishisation of Social Relations

 

 

Chapter 5: Interculturality and The Commons

 

 

Chapter 6: Conclusion: Reconfiguring Interculturality Within the Dialectics of The Everyday

 

 

Bibliography

 

 

Index 

 

Biography

Ashley Simpson is Lecturer in Language Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. Ashley Simpson is also Co-Head of the Institute of Language Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK.