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Cross-cultural Communication and English as an International Language by Yano Yasukata. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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// Intercultural Communication Studies, XV-3, 2006. 8 p. With the development of transportation means and communication media, people have moved worldwide and communicated globally. The interaction and coexistence of people from many different backgrounds and ethnicities have turned our societies into multicultural ones. Our daily life, especially that in urban metropolitan areas, has increasingly become multinational and multicultural, producing multicultural individuals who belong to various discourse communities and affiliating and identifying with many different cultures and ways of communication. Those people play various social roles in various interacting contexts and gain multiple social identities. In our time of globalization, we have more to be exposed to and share with than ever before in terms of culture—beliefs, worldviews, values, attitudes, and ideologies—but at the same time much of them remains different and unshared, which is enhanced by raising people’s awareness of cultural, ethnic, and religious identities. It would be interesting to rethink what cross-cultural communication is at such a time in relation to the function of the English language as a means of c

Who reads Cross-cultural Communication and English as an International Language?

Author

Yano Yasukata.

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Language