Intercultural Communication in Post-Pandemic and Dystopian Times

A Critical Approach

Natalia Fernández Díaz-Cabal (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

146 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-4939-1 (ISBN)

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We have become accustomed to the fact that certain intercultural terms such as differences, diversity, intercultural competence or inclusion have become cornerstones. In this essay, the author attempts to examine these concepts by turning them inside out, pointing out the origin (and purpose) of many of them and, at the same time, highlighting some shortcomings: for example, illness is not a welcomed element in intercultural discourses, which the author explains through what she calls 'autogenous differences' and by recovering an analysis of what, by convention and convenience, we have called 'normality', in whose furrow discourses, categorisations, feelings and expectations circulate.Beyond all this, the book focuses on the most disruptive aspects (and therefore real obstacles) in intercultural communication. These are many and of a very diverse nature, but the author is content to dissect identitarianisms, tribal meanings, and differences that are both proud of themselves and exclusionary. She takes the opportunity to vindicate the role of the East in a fundamentally Western-centric sphere. All the critique, however, cannot end without a call for hope: perhaps we have to become, by necessity if not by conviction, culturally resilient human beings. And thus readjust the mirrors that return to us our own image and that of others.

Natalia Fernández Díaz-Cabal holds a PhD in Linguistics and a PhD in the Philosophy of Science and Language. She is Professor of International and Intercultural Communication, as well as Professor of Intercultural Negotiation and Resolution of Conflicts, at several universities, and a translator of seven languages. She has given courses, seminars and conferences in Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Argentina, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Canada, France, India, Malaysia, China, Morocco, Uganda, Japan and Turkey. She is also the author of several books and articles on diverse topics, among them gender violence and language, intercultural communication and metaphors in patients' narratives. Her works include essays in Spanish like "La violencia sexual y su representación en la prensa" (2003), "Polifemo y la mujer barbuda. Crónica (des)enfadada de un cáncer atípico" (2016) and "Perséfone se encuentra La Manada. El trasluz de la violación" (2019). In English she has published "A History of Women's Contributions to Linguistics. Words Gone with the Wind" (2024) with Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.07.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-4939-4 / 1036449394
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-4939-1 / 9781036449391
Zustand	Neuware