Understanding intercultural communication : negotiating a grammar of culture / Adrian Holliday.

Author/creator Holliday, Adrian author.
Format Electronic
EditionSecond edition.
PublicationLondon : Routledge, 2018.
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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Preface; The grammar of culture and reconstructed ethnographic narratives; Reflection; Further reference; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 The grammar of culture; Cultural negotiation; Underlying universal cultural processes; Particular social and political structures; Particular cultural products; How the grammar is used; Further reference; Note; Chapter 2 Cultural practices; 'Foreigners' and 'newcomers'; Examples and factors; How to behave; Anna visiting Beatrice's family; Dima and Christoff: future in-laws
Contents Misunderstanding, Othering and achieving interculturality; Further reference; Notes; Chapter 3 Investigating culture; Approaching the unfamiliar and foreign; Francisca, Gita and Hande: looking for an intercultural methodology; A constructivist qualitative approach; Ivonne preparing to go abroad; Ivonne, Jung and Lan: using previous experience; Ivonne and Lan: complex views about eating; Ethnographic narrative writing; Further reference; Notes; Chapter 4 Constructing culture; Abi and Tomos: making a cultural event; Engineering conformity in the workplace; Self and Other
Contents Small culture formation on thego reflectionn; Further reference; Notes; Chapter 5 Dialogue with structure; Essentialist statements versus observation; Jenna and Malee and critical thinking; Essentialism; Jenna, Bekka and Malee: 'assimilation' and 'Westernisation'; Loss or development; Further reference; Notes; Chapter 6 Grand narratives of nation and history; Ivonne, Chung and Ning: simple things about food; Invention; Stefan, Alicia and Roxana: 'it's what you wear'; Kay and Pushpa: sociological blindness; Types and solutions; Alicia: critical reading; Taking stock; Orientalism
Contents Further reference notess; Chapter 7 Discourses of culture; Discourses; Ramla, Ed and Jonathan: sticking to principles; Nada, Jahan and Osama: getting it wrong?; Nada, Osama, Theobald and Jahan: 'shall we share our cultures?'; Alphonse and Bernice: the problem with talking about 'culture'; Managing and undoing discourses; Further reference; Notes; Chapter 8 Prejudice; Naï ve discourses of culture; Martha and Katya: behaviour in meetings; Francisca, Hande and Gita: missing home, belief and disbelief; Alicia, Stefan and banter; Further reference; Notes; Chapter 9 Cultural travel and innovation
Contents Reflection; John abroad: politeness and space; Reflection; Safa and her friends: cherries, paying and serving; Reflection; Making innovation work; Reflection; Contestation, acceptance and rejection; Safa -- 'when are you going back?'; Achieving interculturality; Further reference; Notes; References; Index
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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