1st Edition

Language, Communication, and Intergroup Relations A Celebration of the Scholarship of Howard Giles

    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    Language, Communication, and Intergroup Relations presents the current state of knowledge at the intersection of language, communication, and intergroup relations, drawing on interdisciplinary work from the fields of communication, social psychology, and sociolinguistics. Building from that existing work, it presents a series of provocative and innovative new directions in this area.

    The work is organized around a series of five themes:

    • Language and Culture

    • Intergroup Communication

    • Intergenerational Relations

    • Interpersonal Accommodation

    • Institutional Accommodation.

    Within each theme, prominent scholars present reviews of the literature, which are followed by responses, reactions, and extensions from a multidisciplinary group of researchers. These responses often move beyond typical academic prose and engage with the material in novel ways, including graphical theoretical models, short personal reflections, and creative prose. It is essential reading for students and academics in the interdisciplinary fields of communication, language, and social psychology.

    Table of Contents

    Part I: Introduction

    Chapter 1

    Accommodating a Legend: Howard Giles and the Social Psychology of Language and Communication

    Jake Harwood, Jon F. NussBaum, Herbert Pierson, Cindy Gallois, and Jessica Gasiorek

    Part II: Language and Culture

    Chapter 2

    Language and Culture: Part II Introduction

    Herbert Pierson

    Chapter 3

    Language and Culture

    Kimberly A. Noels, Richard Clément, Katherine Collins, and Peter MacIntyre

    Chapter 4

    Culture Is Essentially Meaning

    Danjie Su

    Chapter 5

    Social Media, Culture and Identity Construction: From Mass Communication to Communication of the Masses

    Martin Ehala

    Chapter 6

    Communicating New Racial Dynamics

    Li Wei

    Chapter 7

    Howard Giles’s Identity in Everyday Life

    Florian Coulmas

    Chapter 8

    Howard Giles and Accommodation to My Scouse Accent

    Janet Holmes

    Chapter 9

    Howard Giles: Master Elucidator of Language in Social Relationships

    John Edwards

    Chapter 10

    A Debt to Howard Giles’ Work on Language, Culture, and Communication

    Min-Sun Kim

    Chapter 11

    Epiphany Redux: Howard Giles’ Legacy to Language and Culture

    Mary Jiang Bresnahan

    Chapter 12

    Howard Giles: Communication’s Communicator

    Robert Gardner

    Chapter 13

    Power, Culture, and Ethnolinguistic Relations in a South African Context

    Joha Louw-Potgieter

    Chapter 14

    What Would Mikhail Bakhtin Say About Mutual Understanding and Self-Construals? Culture Is Essentially Meaning

    Eungjun Min

    Part III: Intergroup Communication

    Chapter 15

    Intergroup Communication: Part III Introduction

    Jake Harwood

    Chapter 16

    Communicating Between Groups, Communicating About Groups

    Tamara Rakić and Anne Maass

    Chapter 17

    The Intersectionality of Intergroup Communication

    Jessica R. Abrams

    Chapter 18

    An Imaginary Conversation Between the Ghost of Henri Tajfel (HT) and Howard Giles (HG)

    Rupert Brown

    Chapter 19

    Language Evaluation: In Defense of the Status Quo

    Aaron Castelán Cargile

    Chapter 20

    Howie Giles, an Appreciation: Teacher, Scholar, Mentor, Friend

    Miles Hewstone

    Chapter 21

    Categorization, Language, and Intergroup Communication

    Hiroshi Ota

    Chapter 22

    The Father of Intergroup Communication: Ingroup/Outgroup Situations in an Online Parenting Community

    Susan Fox

    Chapter 23

    Communicating Between the Lines, Communicating About the Lines: How a Request to Honor Howie Giles Backfired and Made Me a Published Poet

    Nicholas A. Palomares

    Chapter 24

    Howie’s First Graduate Student: A Few Research Tales

    Richard Y. Bourhis

    Part IV: Intergenerational Relations

    Chapter 25

    Intergenerational Relations: Part IV Introduction

    Jon F. NussBaum

    Chapter 26

    Intergenerational Communication

    Mary Lee Hummert

    Chapter 27

    Communication Predicaments in Aging and Communication Enhancement Strategies

    Ellen Bouchard Ryan

    Chapter 28

    Intergenerational Harmonies and Tensions

    Yan Bing Zhang

    Chapter 29

    It Is in Howie Giles’ Work That I Found My Intellectual Home

    Mei-Chen Lin

    Chapter 30

    Ecologies of Aging

    Craig Fowler

    Chapter 31

    Howie Giles, Dragons, and the Intergenerational Making of Legends

    Margaret Jane Pitts

    Chapter 32

    As I Push Off the Dock, Howie Sails Into the Sunset

    Amber K. Worthington

    Chapter 33

    "Do You Want to Be Categorized as One of the Over Fifty-Fives?": Intergenerational Relations in a Public Context

    Virpi Ylänne

    Chapter 34

    Howie Pays It Forward

    Jon F. NussBaum

    Part V: Interpersonal Accommodation

    Chapter 35

    Interpersonal Accommodation: Part V Introduction

    Jessica Gasiorek

    Chapter 36

    Interpersonal Accommodation

    Yan Bing Zhang and Margaret Jane Pitts

    Chapter 37

    Interpersonal Accommodation and Multiple Goal Frameworks

    Steven R. Wilson

    Chapter 38

    Accommodating to Develop and Maintain Relationships

    René M. Dailey

    Chapter 39

    Sexual (Non)Accommodation Between Midlife and Younger Gay Men and Its Implications for Social Identity

    Christopher Hajek

    Chapter 40

    ...What About Communication Accommodation Between Genders?

    Mª Àngels Viladot

    Chapter 41

    Further Consideration of Communication Accommodation Theory

    Mei-Chen Lin

    Chapter 42

    Future Directions for Communication Accommodation Theory: Considering the Biological Correlates of Accommodative Behavior in Interpersonal Contexts

    Amanda Denes and Anuraj Dhillon

    Chapter 43

    Beyond Dyads: Accommodative Dilemmas in Small Group Interactions

    Marko Dragojevic

    Chapter 44

    Iechyd Da

    Robert M. McCann

    Part VI: Institutional Accommodation

    Chapter 45

    Institutional Accommodation: Part VI Introduction

    Cindy Gallois

    Chapter 46

    Communication Accommodation Theory in Institutional Settings: Opportunities for Applied Research

    Bernadette M. Watson and Jordan Soliz

    Chapter 47

    The Development and Implementation of Cross-Cultural Assessments of Perceptions of Police Accommodation

    Christopher Hajek

    Chapter 48

    Some Thoughts on CAT in Institutional Settings: Race and Criminal Justice

    George B. Ray

    Chapter 49

    For a Sequential Accommodation

    Augusto Gnisci

    Chapter 50

    Institutional Talk: Extending Our Understanding of Intergroup Communication in Institutional Settings

    Liz Jones

    Chapter 51

    Communication Accommodation Theory: Considering a Dialectical Perspective on Police-Civilian Interactions

    Charles W. Choi

    Part VII: Conclusions

    Chapter 52

    Advancing Theory in Language, Communication, and Intergroup Relations

    Jessica Gasiorek, Cindy Gallois, Herbert Pierson, Jon F. NussBaum, and Jake Harwood

    Chapter 53

    Epilogue: Resurrecting While California Dreaming—Re-Releasing Frameworks and Creating a New One

    Howard Giles

    Biography

    Jake Harwood (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is Professor of Communication at the University of Arizona and former director of Gerontology at the same institution.

    Jessica Gasiorek (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communicology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

    Herbert Pierson (Ed.D., SUNY-Albany) is Professor in the Department of Languages & Literatures at St. John’s University in New York and founding Co-Editor (with Howard Giles) of the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication.

    Jon F. NussBaum (Ph.D., Purdue University) is Liberal Arts Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, as well as Human Development and Family Studies, at the Pennsylvania State University.

    Cindy Gallois (Ph.D., University of Florida) is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Communication at the University of Queensland.