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Can I read Silence in Intercultural Communication: Perceptions and Performance (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series) on EtoBox?
Silence in Intercultural Communication: Perceptions and Performance (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series) by Ikuko Nakane is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Silence in Intercultural Communication: Perceptions and Performance (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series) about?
How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives, this book shows how silence is used, perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication — linguistic, cognitive and sociopsychological — and fundamental levels of social organization — individual, situational and sociocultural — the book explores the intricate relationship between perceptions and performance of silence in interaction involving Japanese and Australian participants. Through a combination of macro- and micro-ethnographic analyses of university seminar interactions, the stereotypes of the ‘silent East’ is reconsidered, and the tension between local and sociocultural perspectives of intercultural communication is addressed. The book has relevance to researchers and students in intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis and applied linguistics.
Who reads Silence in Intercultural Communication: Perceptions and Performance (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ikuko Nakane
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282152434
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Sociology, Literary Fiction
