Intercultural Communication (eBook)

Critical Approaches and Future Challenges

Giuliana Ferri (Autor)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2018
IX, 117 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-73918-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, this book critically examines intercultural theory and its interrelations with globalisation, education and dialogue in multicultural societies. Applying the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, the author repositions intercultural communication within a new paradigm that challenges static interpretations of self and other, and suggests future directions for the development of a post-methodological framework based on the decentring of the researcher. This innovative work will provide researchers and language teachers with the critical tools needed to challenge instrumentalist approaches to communication in a diverse global context, characterised by conflict and fear of the other and fresh insights to scholars of education, applied linguistics and sociology.

Giuliana Ferri is a Senior Lecturer in Early Years Education and Education Studies in the School of Human and Social Sciences at the University of West London, UK. Her research focuses on language in education and education policy, intercultural ethics and human rights.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Contents 6
List of Tables 8
Chapter 1: Intercultural Communication-Current Challenges and Future Directions 9
Main Themes 9
Methodological Considerations 11
Self and Other, a Question of Difference? 16
Philosophical Inquiry in Intercultural Communication 17
The Role of Levinasian Ethics in Problematizing Intercultural Communication 19
Conclusion 20
References 21
Chapter 2: A Critical Framework for Intercultural Communication 25
Introduction 25
Culture ‘Under Erasure’ 26
Perspectivist Intercultural Communication 28
Post-modernism and the Politics of Interculturality 31
Holliday and the Critical Cosmopolitan Potential 36
Guilherme: Critical Intercultural Citizenship 39
The Emancipated Intercultural Subject 42
Hegelian Dialectics as a Narrative of Positive Resolution 46
Adorno and Negative Dialectics 48
Conclusion 50
References 50
Chapter 3: The Ethics of Interculturalism 55
Introduction1 55
The Promise as Deferred Understanding 58
Kantian Autonomy and the Levinasian Other 62
Accusativity vs. Subjectivity 66
Asymmetry vs. Symmetry 69
Heteronomy vs. Autonomy 70
Proximity vs. Distance 72
Conclusion. Interculturality and the Distinction Between the Saying and the Said 74
References 76
Chapter 4: Dwelling or Sojourning? Modalities of Interculturality 80
Introduction1 80
The Pyramid Model 81
The ICOPROMO Project 85
The Idealised Intercultural Speaker in the Pyramid Model and the ICOPROMO Project 86
Intercultural Competence as Dwelling 90
A Dialogic Understanding of Interaction 96
The Processual 97
Context 99
The Multiperspectival 100
A Comparison of Competence Models 102
Assessing Intercultural Competence, an Impossible Task? 105
Conclusion 107
References 108
Chapter 5: Conclusion 113
Final Thoughts 113
Future Directions and Methodological Implications 117
References 119
Index 121

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2018
• Zusatzinfo: IX, 117 p. 9 illus., 2 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Adorno • Alterity • Competence Assessment • Derrida • dialogic interculturalism • essentialism • ethics • Hegel • Hospitality • Intercultural communication • Intercultural Competence • intercultural education • intercultural philosophy • Language Learning • Levinas • neo-essentialism • Post-Colonial Theory • Spivak • Subalternity • Tolerance
• ISBN-10: 3-319-73918-2 / 3319739182
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-73918-2 / 9783319739182