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In many fields of professional practice and research, conversations can no longer be conducted in the first language of the respective participants. The increasing diversity of languages, of multi- and translingualism require the involvement of language mediators/interpreters. In the contexts of flight, asylum and migration, this interdisciplinary volume discusses different procedural strategies for overcoming linguistic as well as culturally conditioned communication barriers and highlights the emerging methodological and theoretical challenges for social counselling and therapy practice as well as for the practice of qualitative research.

In response to the cultural challenges in society and scholarship, this handbook presents the conceptions, assumptions, principles, methods, topics and issues in the studies of cultural forms of human communication—cultural discourses—by experts from around the world.A culturalist programme in communication studies (CS), cultural discourse studies (CDS), as represented in this handbook, is a new current of thought in human and social science and a form of academic activism, but above all, it is a fresh paradigm of research committed to enhancing cultural harmony and prosperity on the one hand and facilitating intellectual plurality and innovation on the other hand. This handbook is the first of its kind; it is concerned with the identities of, and interactions between, the world's diverse cultural communities through locally-grounded and globally-minded, culturally conscious and critical approaches to their communicative practice. Contributors apply such insights, precepts and techniques, not merely to discover and describe past and present communication, but also to design and guide future communication.This handbook is ideal for scholars and students interested in cultural aspects and issues of communication/discourse, as well as researchers of other fields looking to apply cultural discourse methods to their own projects.

Der Band befasst sich mit Zusammenhängen von Sprache, Interkulturalität und Digitalität. Die neun Kapitel untersuchen, wie sich Interkulturalität in verschiedenen Settings digitaler Kommunikation – von YouTube über Tripadvisor bis Twitter – manifestiert und wie sie mit kommunikativen Strategien und komplexen Identitätsdarstellungen verwoben wird.The contributions to this volume address the blending of language, interculturality and digitality. The nine chapters investigate how (inter)culturality is manifested in various settings of digital communication – from YouTube to Tripadvisor and Twitter – and how it becomes intertwined with sets of communicative strategies and complex displays of identity..

This book deeply examines the definition, formation, translation purpose, stylistic features, and modernity connotation of Liang's “unfettered translation.” The book on Liang Qichao and his “unfettered translation” is the first of its kind in academia. This translation strategy, first adopted by Liang, played a crucial role in introducing Western learning and influencing late Qing Dynasty translators. Reflecting Liang's political agenda, it aims to save the country and enlighten the people, promoting societal modernization and cultural exchange. The book offers Western readers insights into Liang Qichao's translation and its impact on modern Chinese culture.

This volume introduces a new analytical framework of cultural linguistics by utilizing the principles of cultural conceptualization and semiotics to develop a more inclusive and dynamic model for the interplay between language and culture. The analytical model proposed in the book can be used to study linguistic and cultural phenomena at the level of cognition, shedding light on culturally-constructed concepts that have yet to be fully understood. By incorporating semiotics into cultural conceptualization, this book offers new insights into the linguistic manifestation of various cultural conceptualizations, making it a unique and innovative contribution to the field of cultural linguistics.

What can baseball teach us about language, culture, and society? The first book-length exploration of multilingualism in professional sports, Multilingual Baseball provides an intimate look at language diversity in the transnational world of baseball. Based on extensive interviews and observations in the US and the Dominican Republic, the book foregrounds the voices of current and former players, coaches, front office personnel, international scouts, language teachers, and interpreters, with baseball experience in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Engaging a wide range of foundational concepts within sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and linguistic and cultural anthropology, the analysis reveals the relevance of bilingualism to the social and economic realities of professional baseball as a transnational business. It also illuminates day-to-day encounters with linguistic and cultural difference on the field, in clubhouses, and in communities around the world. Through this linguistic lens, the book delves into social issues in diverse societies by connecting interactions within baseball to the broader challenges of immigration, race, and demographic change. While grounded in the experiences of Spanish and English speakers in US Major League Baseball organizations, Multilingual Baseball presents the transnational game as a microcosm of globalizing societies around the world, inviting readers to consider what we can learn from the bilingual understandings and misunderstandings that arise in everyday baseball interactions.

El presente libro científico y cognitivo ofrece una oportunidad para reflexionar sobre las diversas cuestiones y temas que interesan a investigadores y académicos que están involucrados en el estudio de la relación entre Oriente y Occidente, así como en la interacción entre Occidente y el mundo árabe e islámico. Esta obra permite a los lectores la provechosa oportunidad de identificar y explorar los diversos enfoques que permiten contemplar las diferentes regiones del mundo, tanto en el ámbito del este como en el del oeste.Con la aportación de investigadores académicos de universidades vinculadas a los cinco continentes, el libro ofrece una perspectiva amplia y diversa, enriqueciendo aún más la comprensión de estos temas. Además, es capaz de dar una visión precisa de cómo se concibe al otro'y las epistemologías que se utilizan para entenderlo. Al establecer su interpretación, el libro nos invita a plantear cuestiones fundamentales sobre la capacidad de estas epistemologías y enfoques para fomentar un conocimiento cercano y equitativo del otro.'

Ein interdisziplinärer Band im Open-Access: Die Aufwertung der Volkssprachen in der Frühen Neuzeit führte zu einer Intensivierung und internationalen Öffnung der europäischen Übersetzungskultur. Der Gebrauch des Englischen bleibt in dieser Zeit allerdings weitgehend auf die Insel beschränkt, während die Sprache auf dem Kontinent noch wenig geläufig ist. Erst seit dem 18. Jahrhundert gewinnt sie an internationaler Bedeutung und steigt schließlich zur modernen Weltsprache auf. Der Band fokussiert auf die vormoderne Situation und untersucht in 19 literatur-, kunst-, philosophie- und frömmigkeitsgeschichtlichen Fallstudien die deutsche Rezeption der frühneuzeitlichen englischen Literatur und Kultur. Mit Blick auf das bislang unzureichend erforschte deutsch-englische Interaktionsfeld erhellt er ebenso ausgewählte Personen, Institutionen und Wissensfelder wie Werkübertragungen, Gattungstransformationen und Übersetzungspraktiken, die den bereits in dieser Zeit bemerkenswert dichten Austausch zwischen England und dem Alten Reich prägten. Welche Netzwerke und Medien ermöglichten z.B. die Rezeption einflussreicher Denker und Dichter wie Bacon, Hobbes oder Milton im deutschsprachigen Raum; wie kam es gleichsam im Mutterland des Protestantismus zu einer auffallend intensiven Übersetzung englischer Erbauungsliteratur; welche Rolle spielten Parallelübersetzungen oder auch Übersetzungen aus zweiter Hand, etwa dort, wo der kulturelle Transfer über eine dritte Sprache wie das Französische oder Niederländische erfolgte? Auf solche Fragen werden im Band neue Antworten gegeben.

This book proposes an interdisciplinary methodology for developing an intercultural use of law so as to include cultural differences and their protection within legal discourse; this is based on an analysis of the sensory grammar tacitly included in categorizations. This is achieved by combining the theoretical insights provided by legal theory, anthropology and semiotics with a reading of human rights as translational interfaces among the different cultural spaces in which people live. To support this use of human rights'semantic and normative potential, a specific cultural-geographic view dubbed ‘legal chorology'is employed. Its primary purpose is to show the extant continuity between categories and spaces of experience, and more specifically between legal meanings and the spatial dimensions of people's lives. Through the lens of legal chorology and the intercultural, translational use of human rights, the book provides a methodology that shows how to make space and lawreciprocally transformative so as to create an inclusive legal grammar that is equidistant from social cultural differences. The analysis includes: a critical view on opportunities for intercultural secularization; the possibility of construing a legal grammar of quotidian life that leads to an inclusive equidistance from differences rather than an unachievable neutrality or an all-encompassing universal legal ontology; an interdisciplinary methodology for legal intercultural translation; a chorological reading of the relationships between human rights protection and lived spaces; and an intercultural and geo-semiotic examination of a series of legal cases and current issues such as indigenous peoples'rights and the international protection of sacred places.

This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a practical introduction to intercultural education for teachers of English as a second language. It provides a concise summary of the intellectual and pedagogical traditions that have shaped intercultural language education, from ethnography to critical pedagogy and cultural studies. The book offers clear illustrations of the practical impact of these traditions on curriculum design, classroom activities and assessment. As well as addressing developments in the field since the publication of the 1st edition, this new edition also reflects on the impact of online resources for English language education. The book continues to make a powerful case for developing intercultural as well as linguistic competences and will remain invaluable reading for English language teachers across the world.

As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country's poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than 100 million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowledged by the state and they are lauded as a part of India's ethnic identity today, their poverty has been compounded by the suppression of their cultural heritage and lifestyle.In Adivasi Art and Activism, Alice Tilche draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted in rural western India to chart changes in adivasi aesthetics, home life, attire, food, and ideas of religiosity that have emerged from negotiation with the homogenizing forces of Hinduization, development, and globalization in the twenty-first century. She documents curatorial projects located not only in museums and art institutions, but in the realms of the home, the body, and the landscape. Adivasi Art and Activism raises vital questions about preservation and curation of indigenous material and provides an astute critique of the aesthetics and politics of Hindu nationalism.

This study addresses the corporate cultural practices of German companies in the host country Indonesia from the perspective of Indonesian employees, managers and German expatriates. The focus is on the intercultural challenges that arise in the practice of daily cooperation between Indonesian and German organizational members. Using qualitative methods, the study examines how these challenges are viewed and managed by organizational members, what cultural differences are evident in them and how these differences can be explained, and finally, what strategies can be used to overcome the challenges in everyday business. This ethnographic study is based on interviews with Indonesian and German organizational members, analysis of internal company journals and newsletters, and observations collected by the author as a'professional stranger'at Indonesian sites of German multinational companies. The study concludes that four cultural issues are fundamental factors in the corporate culture of German companies in the host country Indonesia: first, the implementation of a culture of integrity; second, issues of leadership in a hierarchy-driven social environment; third, the daily use of language and the flow of information in a multilingual professional environment; and finally, the creation and maintenance of harmonious, family-like working relationships.

Through its unique approach of using narratives and stories to convey theories and concepts, this text, now in its fourth edition, gives students a foundational knowledge in intercultural communication that is imperative for understanding and navigating our increasingly complex human interactions.This edition continues with an interpretive approach to intercultural communication that is dedicated to providing resources to understand and explain how our own and other cultural systems are reasonable and valuable. New to this edition are increased explorations of immigration, intersectionality, and privilege. For greater flexibility, it introduces a series of mini chapters on topics such as globalization (including discussion of the impact of new media and popular culture), education, and the role of culture in family communication, health communication, environmental communication and multicultural leadership. Each chapter again closes with a summary, reflection questions, and suggestions for activities available for students'own review or as potential class exercises. The book is an ideal companion for introductory or upper-level undergraduate courses in intercultural communication. Online resources include self-tests, enrichment activities, reflection questions, recommendations for addition readings for students, lecture slides, chapter objectives, supplemental readings, sample discussion and test questions, and additional classroom activities for instructors. Please visit www.routledge.com/cw/hall.

Too often, cultural competence training has led to the inadvertent marginalization of some individuals and groups and the reinforcement of existing stereotypes. This text explores the concept of cultural humility, which offers an exciting way forward for those engaged in the helping professions. In contrast to cultural competence, cultural humility challenges individuals to embark on a lifelong course of self-examination and transformational learning that will enable them to engage more authentically with clients, patients, colleagues, and others. The book traces our understanding of and responses to diversity and inclusion over time with a focus on the United States.Topics explored include:Us and Them: The Construction of CategoriesCultural Competence as an Approach to Understanding DifferenceTransformational Learning Through Cultural HumilityFostering Cultural Humility in the Institutional/Organizational ContextCultural Humility and the Helping ProfessionalThe book presents examples that illustrate how the concept of cultural humility can be implemented on an institutional level and in the context of individual-level interactions, such as those between a healthcare provider or therapist and a client.Diversity, Cultural Humility, and the Helping Professions: Building Bridges Across Difference is essential reading for the health professions (nursing, medicine), social work, psychology, art therapy, and other helping professions.

Few phenomena have incited as much passion as the unravelling of what ‘intercultural competence'means. This book presents a novel, bio-cultural approach towards intercultural competence, arguing that a relevant perceptual architecture must be set up via acting competently in various contexts and situations over time. This enactive framework proposes various levels of integration of cultural differences fundamental for acting effectively in multicultural environments. Intercultural competence emerges here from the co-activation of specific sets of expertise, such as creativity, morality and gender, for which the integration of cultural otherness provides the pivotal axis. A specific perceptual architecture results from such novel functional connections, via the integration of cultural otherness into highly interlinked perception, cognition, affect and action systems.

This bestselling coursebook introduces current understanding about culture and provides a model for teaching culture to translators, interpreters and other mediators. The approach is interdisciplinary, with theory from Translation Studies and beyond, while authentic texts and translations illustrate intercultural issues and strategies adopted to overcome them. This new (third) edition has been thoroughly revised to update scholarship and examples and now includes new languages such as Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish, and examples from interpreting settings. This edition revisits the chapters based on recent developments in scholarship in intercultural communication, cultural mediation, translation and interpreting. It aims to achieve a more balanced representation of written and spoken communication by giving more attention to interpreting than the previous editions, especially in interactional settings. Enriched with discussion of key recent scholarly contributions, each practical example has been revisited and/ or updated.Complemented with online resources, which may be used by both teachers and students, this is the ideal resource for all students of translation and interpreting, as well as any reader interested in communication across cultural divides.Additional resources are available on the Routledge Translation Studies Portal: http://routledgetranslationstudiesportal.com/

From the author of Why Travel Matters, the third edition of the essential book to bridge cultures and countries.Adjusting to a new culture and getting along with the local people challenge everyone who lives and works abroad. Whether in business, diplomacy, education, or as a long-term visitor abroad, anyone can be blind-sided by a lack of international knowledge and experience and be caught at a disadvantage.In this completely revised and expanded edition of the classic The Art of Crossing Cultures, Craig Storti shows what it takes to encounter a new culture head-on and succeed. This one-of-a-kind guidebook to bridging the cultural divide - with more than 50,000 copies sold worldwide - incorporates a stellar sampling of the writings of some of the world's greatest writers, poets and observers of the human condition.Through the vivid perceptions and words of such literary legends as Noel Coward, Graham Greene, Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Mark Twain, Evelyn Waugh, and others, Storti paints an intimate portrait of the personal challenges of adjusting to another culture: anticipating differences, managing the temptation to withdraw, and gradually adjusting expectations of behavior to fit reality.This timely new edition focuses special attention on how to deal with country and culture shock and includes many new examples of cross-cultural misunderstandings - particularly in business. Storti breaks new ground with his easy-to-understand model of cultural adjustment and tips on how to master the process and develop adaptive strategies - the heart of the cross-cultural experience.

This book investigates the study of World Englishes from the perspective of Cultural Linguistics, a theoretical and analytical framework for cultural cognition, cultural conceptualisations and language that employs and expands on the analytical tools and theoretical advancements in a number of disciplines, including cognitive psychology/science, anthropology, distributed cognition, and complexity science. The field of World Englishes has long focused on the sociolinguistic and applied linguistic study of varieties of English. Cultural Linguistics is now opening a new venue for research on World Englishes by exploring cultural conceptualisations underlying different varieties of English. The book explores ways in which the analytical framework of Cultural Linguistics may be employed to study varieties of English around the globe.

Für zahlreiche berufliche Praxis- und Forschungsfelder gilt, dass Gespräche nicht mehr in der Erstsprache der jeweiligen Beteiligten geführt werden können. Die zunehmende Vielfalt von Sprachen, von Multi- und Translingualität verlangen die Einbindung von Sprachmittler_innen/Dolmetscher_innen. In den Zusammenhängen von Flucht, Asyl und Migration diskutiert dieser interdisziplinäre Band unterschiedliche Verfahrensstrategien zur Überwindung sprachlicher wie auch kulturell bedingter Kommunikationsbarrieren und zeigt die entstehenden methodischen und theoretischen Herausforderungen für die soziale Beratungs- und Therapiepraxis wie für die Praxis qualitativer Forschung auf.

Now in a second edition, this book guides students in developing Intercultural Communication Competence through its accessible style and unique theoretical framework of ten interconnected principles.Thoroughly revised and updated with new case studies and examples and a sharper focus on practical application, the book engages students in active learning by showing them how these principles come to play in their intercultural journeys. It features detailed case studies that are accompanied by guiding questions that help students link theory to their daily lives. At the end of each chapter, the'Side Trips'discussion prompts encourage students to think more critically about the issues as they are presented. Suitable for upper-level or graduate intercultural communication courses within communication and linguistics departments.

Living, working and studying in intercultural and international contexts is ever more relevant to a broad range of individuals including educators, social scientists and professionals. As education and work become increasingly international, every student and professional at some point is likely to feel the need to explore and discuss concepts of culture and identity in order to be prepared for intercultural encounters in the globalised workplace. Understanding Intercultural Interaction encourages readers to abandon the notion that culture is something static that we possess or have inherited and to see it as fluid and dynamic, created, interpreted and negotiated through social interaction. It recommends an examination of the contextual framework of intercultural behaviour and the power relations and inequalities that pervade it to enable readers to understand themselves and the role that they play on the international stage. In its exploration of key concepts in culture and interaction, the book equips students and professionals from varied backgrounds with the tools to understand, discuss and apply them to their own lives. Designed principally as an accessible introduction for non-specialists to explore a wide range of theories and ideas that seek to explain intercultural encounters, the critical analysis provided in this book also offers ample scope for more in-depth exploration by those who wish to deepen their knowledge of the field, making it ideal for facilitating reflection and discussion in study or training contexts.

Was haben Ampelfiguren, ein Hase oder ein „Speibsackerl“ mit Transkultureller Kommunikation zu tun? Was spielt alles mit in einer Kommunikationssituation und was macht professionelle Transkulturelle Kommunikation aus? Warum braucht es ein differenziertes Kulturverständnis ohne Simplifizierung und Zuschreibungen? Mit diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen der Transkulturellen Kommunikation setzt sich diese interdisziplinäre Einführung auseinander. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende, an Lehrende der Kultur- und Kommunikationswissenschaften sowie an alle an Kommunikation Interessierten. „Wir laden Sie ein, mit uns zu überlegen, wie kommunikative Expertise durch Wissen, Erfahrung und Reflexion aufgebaut werden kann, und schaffen einen Raum, in dem Sie an persönliche Erfahrungen anknüpfen und informierte eigene Positionen beziehen können.“ Sabine Dengscherz und Michèle Cooke

Der Begriff „interkulturelle Kompetenz“ entstand Anfang der 1990er Jahre im Zusammenhang mit der Frage, wie die Herausforderungen von Globalisierung und Multikulturalisierung der Gesellschaft auf der individuellen Handlungsebene bewältigt werden können. Heute ist der Begriff „interkulturelle Kompetenz“ alltäglich geworden; erfolgreich und angemessen mit Menschen umgehen zu können, die kulturell unterunterschiedlich orientiert sind, ist in allen Bereichen des privaten, öffentlichen und beruflichen Lebens eine nachgefragte Fähigkeit. In den Wissenschaften ist „interkulturelle Kompetenz“ dagegen ein umstrittenes Konstrukt. Die Diskrepanz zwischen praktischer Relevanz und theoretischer Fragwürdigkeit des Konzepts Interkulturelle Kompetenz stellt den Ausgangspunkt dieses Bandes dar. Die Autorinnen und Autoren setzen sich aus unterschiedlichen (Fach-)Perspektiven mit den strittigen Diskursen, Theorien und Modellen auseinander: Es geht um eine grundlegende Reflexion des Konstrukts Interkulturelle Kompetenz und wie dieses im Theorie- und Praxisfeld Interkulturelle Kommunikation verhandelt wird. Die Spannbreite der Texte reicht von der kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit Tendenzen und Entwicklungslinien des wissenschaftlichen Feldes Interkulturelle Kommunikation und des Umgangs mit den Begriffen Kultur, Interkulturalität und interkulturelle Kompetenz bis hin zu Fragen der Methodologie und Theoriebildung in spezifischen interkulturellen Handlungsszenarien. Das Anliegen dieses Bandes besteht darin, die aktuellen Debatten, Theoriebildungen und Praxisansätze, die sich mit dem Konzept Interkulturelle Kompetenz beschäftigen, in einen Zusammenhang zu bringen und kritisch zu kommentieren.

This book examines the complex and multidimensional relationship between culture and social media, and its specific impact on issues of identity and social movements, in a globalized world. Contemporary cyber culture involves communication among people who are culturally, nationally, and linguistically similar or radically different. Social media becomes a space for mediated cultural information transfer which can either facilitate a vibrant public sphere or create cultural and social cleavages. Contributors of the book come from diverse cultural backgrounds to provide a comprehensive analysis of how these social media exchanges allow members of traditionally oppressed groups find their voices, cultivate communities, and construct their cultural identities in multiple ways.This book will be of great relevance to scholars and students working in the field of media and new media studies, intercultural communication, especially critical intercultural communication, and academics studying social identity and social movements.

Intercultural competences Cultures are based on concepts such as values, they define how we perceive our world, what is our truth. Author Patrick Janssen explains what culture really is, how it influences our daily life and communication patterns and how most of our miscommunications are based on our cultural values. Intercultural competences explores the ancient origins of cultures and provides guidance on how to understand the differences. Some definitions such as stereotyping and cultural identity are also discussed. The book provides theoretical models that make cultural differences in between countries visible, such as the models of Hofstede and Lewis. The theory is then connected to the real world and how to act on it. The book explains how to look for cultural aspects and where to find pitfalls. Intercultural competences provides a wide range of directly applicable practical competences and models on how to deal with other cultures. In addition, the book provides practical tips and tools for recognizing hidden cultural communication and resolving intercultural conflicts. After studying this book, students and professionals are well equipped to enter the new global economy. About the author Ir. Patrick T.H.M. Janssen (Msc.) (1966) works as a writer, trainer, teacher and coach. He trains and coaches multicultural, international teams, individuals and young, starting entrepreneurs with his company Greybeard (greybeard.eu). He also works as a teacher and developer for cross-cultural communication at TIO (university of applied sciences) in Amsterdam.

Intercultural Mirrors: Dynamic Reconstruction of Identity contains (auto)ethnographic chapters and research-based explorations that uncover the ways our intercultural experiences influence our process of self-discovery and self-construction. The idea of intercultural mirrors is applied throughout all chapters as an instrument of analysis, an heuristic tool, drawn from philosophy, to provide a focus for the analysis of real life experiences. Plato noted that one could see one's own reflection in the pupil of another's eye, and suggested that the mirror image provided in the eye of the other person was an essential contributor to self-knowledge. Taking this as a cue, the contributors of this book have structured their writings around the idea that the view of us held by other people provides an essential key to one's own self-understanding. Contributors are: James Arvanitakis, Damian Cox, Mark Dinnen, James Ferguson, Tom Frengos, Dennis Harmon, Donna Henson, Alexandra Hoyt, William Kelly, Lucyann Kerry, Julia Kraven, Taryn Mathis, Tony McHugh, Raoul Mortley, Kristin Newton, Marie-Claire Patron, Darren Swanson, and Peter Mbago Wakholi.

The book deals with the question how students in multicultural EFL-classrooms can be prepared for their role as world citizens. The author shows that teaching English offers important potentials for cosmopolitan education due to its role as a «lingua franca». The study develops the construct cosmopolitan communicative competence as a theoretical framework. It also presents a teaching approach that combines students'life-writing with the discussion of literary texts to advance the associated knowledge, skills and attitudes. The potentials of this approach are evaluated through the assessment of students'competence development.

Die an interkulturellen Fragestellungen interessierten Literaturwissenschaften arbeiten bislang überwiegend gegenwartszentriert. Im aktuellen Theoriediskurs wird jedoch häufiger darauf hingewiesen, dass eine Beschränkung der Interkulturalitätsforschung auf rezente Globalisierungsphänomene zu kurz gegriffen ist und die Notwendigkeit einer Historisierung besteht. In diesem Sinne unternimmt der Band einen Vorstoß zur Erweiterung des Forschungsfeldes im Zeichen des Diachron-Geschichtlichen und erreicht damit eine signifikante Komplexitätssteigerung des häufig zu undifferenziert gedachten Interkulturalitätsbegriffs.

Cultuurverschillen komen niet alleen voor tussen mensen uit verschillende landen of religies, maar ook tussen mensen van verschillende leeftijd, sekse of geaardheid. Om met al deze mensen te kunnen werken, is het belangrijk dat professionals kennis hebben van diversiteitbenaderingen en van superdiversiteit als nieuwe maatschappelijke realiteit. Bovendien moeten ze zich een bepaalde basishouding eigen maken: ‘met nieuwe ogen'leren kijken naar hun werkomgeving. In twee delen beschrijft Met nieuwe ogen de belangrijkste informatie over het omgaan met cultuurverschillen binnen het sociale domein. Het boek zet aan tot kritisch reflecteren op het eigen denken en handelen rondom diversiteitsissues. Praktijksituaties en videomateriaal verhelderen hoe diversiteit zich bij en tussen mensen kan voordoen en hoe een professional daar verbindend mee kan werken. Het eerste deel is gericht op de ontwikkeling van meervoudig kijken. Het tweede deel biedt een handelingskader voor meervoudig verbinden. Dit kader is gebaseerd op vijf pijlers: cultuursensitief exploreren, intercultureel communiceren, verbinden vanuit empowerment, zingevend werken en samenwerken aan een inclusieve samenleving. De herziening sluit aan bij een aantal nieuwe ontwikkelingen in de samenleving die zijn weerslag hebben op het sociale domein. Het gaat hier om de transformaties naar een superdiverse samenleving en de nieuwe werkterreinen en de kerntaken binnen het sociaal werk. Dit heeft er toe geleid dat het aantal hoofdstukken verdubbeld is en de basiskennis en de praktijkopdrachten meer gericht zijn op het leren omgaan met (super)diversiteit. Daarnaast is de aandacht meer gericht op het verbindend werken met alle sociaal kwetsbare personen, ongeacht welke culturele achtergrond, gender, leeftijd, talenten of beperkingen iemand heeft, dus niet alleen op mensen met een migratieachtergrond.

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.

Le fil conducteur de ce livre fait référence à l'art culinaire et à son rapport intrinsèque aux langues et cultures, favorisant ainsi une communication interculturelle riche et variée, en symbiose avec la gastronomie de différents pays. Le volume réunit des articles scientifiques sur l'histoire, la linguistique, la lexicologie et la didactique. Au total, 13 collègues enseignants-chercheurs de nationalités diverses (espagnole, française, russe) ont participé à la rédaction de ce livre, dont les 13 contributions sont organisées selon trois axes sur l'éventail amplement recouvert des divers domaines de travail des trois éditrices de cet ouvrage.

In a time of intensifying xenophobia and anti-immigration measures, this book examines the impulse to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural others. Immersions in Cultural Difference takes readers into the heart of immersive simulations, including a simulated terrorist training camp in Utah; mock Afghan villages at military bases in Canada and the UK; a fictional Mexico-US border run in Hidalgo, Mexico; and an immersive tour for settlers at a First Nations reserve in Manitoba, Canada. Natalie Alvarez positions the phenomenon of immersive simulations within intersecting cultural formations: a neoliberal capitalist interest in the so-called “experience economy” that operates alongside histories of colonization and a heightened state of xenophobia produced by War on Terror discourse. The author queries the ethical stakes of these encounters, including her own in relation to the field research she undertakes. As the book moves from site to site, the reader discovers how these immersions function as intercultural rehearsal theaters that serve a diverse set of strategies and pedagogical purposes: they become a “force multiplier” within military strategy, a transgressive form of dark tourism, an activist strategy, and a global, profit-generating practice for a neoliberal capitalist marketplace.

The volume draws from René Devisch's encounters with groups in southsaharan Africa, primarily. The author had the privilege to immerse himself, around the clock, in the Yakaphones'activities and thoughts in southwest DR Congo from 1972 to 1974, and intermittently in Kinshasa's shanty towns, from 1986 to 2003. The author first examines what sparked his choice to come to Congo, and then to pursue research among the Yakaphones in the borderland with Angola. He then invites us to follow the trajectory of his plural anthropological view on today's multicentric world. It leads us to his praise for honorary doctor Jean-Marc Ela's work. He then examines the proletarian outbursts of violence that rocked Congo's major cities in 1991 and 1993. These can be read as a settling of scores with the disillusioning colonial and missionary modernisation, along with president Mobutu's millenarian Popular Movement of the Revolution. Furthermore, after considering the morose reduction of a major Yaka dancing mask into a mere museum-bound curio in Antwerp, the book unravels the Yakaphones'perspectives on spirits and sorcery's threat. It also analyses their commitment to classical Bantu-African healing cults, along with their parallel consulting physicians and healers. By sharing the Yakaphones'life-world, the analysis highlights their body-group-world weave, interlaced by the principle of co-resonance. A phenomenological and perspectivist look unfolds the local actors'views, thereby disclosing the Bantu-African genius and setting for a major reversal of perspectives. Indeed, seeing'here'from'there'allows the author to uncover some alienating dynamics at work in his native Belgian Flemish-speaking culture. To better grasp the realm of life beyond the speakable and factual reasoning, the approach occasionally turns to the later Lacan's focus on the unconscious desire, the body and its affects. The book addresses students and researchers in the humanities and, more broadly, all those immersed in the heat of the encounter with the culturally different.

The go-to guide for intercultural competence in the global business arena.In 50 short, simple conversations, speakers from two different cultures misinterpret each other, with serious consequences for the bottom line and ongoing business relations. The Art of Doing Business Across Cultures presents five brief (8-10 lines), unsuccessful conversational exchanges between Americans and their business colleagues in 10 different locations-the Arab Middle East, Brazil, China, England, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, and Russia. These situations illustrate the five most common cultural differences between Americans (and other northern Europeans) and each of the featured cultures through debriefing each conversation to illustrate where the cultural mistake occurred, and suggesting a practical fix to prevent similar misunderstandings in the future. The Art of Doing Business Across Cultures is a quick tour of the most common cultural differences Americans/No. Europeans encounter when doing business in ten of the world's key markets.

Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility. This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West. Cultural competence—knowing what one needs to know to act in a manner acceptable in a society—is the first step to credibility and the surest antidote to being misunderstood. DiGennaro creatively introduces dialog between two fictitious characters: Juma as the African voice, and Wesley as the Western voice. They articulate their culture's perspectives on seven themes, themes which were identified by Westerners in Africa and by their African co-workers, as the most chronic points of cross-cultural stress: organization, finances, friendship, spirituality, communication and conflict, leadership, and work. Easy to read and broad in approach, this book is ideal for North Americans and Europeans who desire to expand their appreciation and comprehension of Africans'social reality. Debbi DiGennaro (M.A. in Social Work, The Ohio State University) moved to East Africa in 2008. She leaned heavily on her training in social sciences to facilitate her understanding of work and relationship patterns in Africa. Based in Nairobi with her family, DiGennaro currently leads the regional team of a faith-based NGO.

The contributors to this volume have collaborated to present their work on introducing competences in intercultural communication and citizenship into foreign language education. The book examines how learners and teachers think about citizenship and interculturality, and shows how teachers and researchers from primary to university education can work together across continents to develop new curricula and pedagogy. This involves the creation of a new theory of intercultural citizenship and a procedure for implementation. The book is written by teacher researchers who aim to help other teachers, and concludes with reflections on the lessons they have learnt which will help others to implement these ideas in their own practice. The book is essential reading for foreign language educators and researchers, students in pre-service teacher training and teachers in in-service training.

This book demonstrates how the theories and insights of anthropology have positively influenced the conduct of global business and commerce, providing a foundation for understanding the impact of culture on global business, and global business on culture.

Italy often suffers from its cultural heritage. Certain themes have passed into stereotype and popular consumption, while others have been overlooked. This volume discusses teaching choices and topics on the implementation of a US study abroad business programme in Italy. The authors first have a look at business questions, then at culture through a chapter on the fashion industry. The final section focuses on methods in teaching Italian culture, language, history, and intercultural communication. This volume highlights non-traditional aspects of Italian culture, and focuses on the intercultural dimension of teaching and learning for study abroad students. The points of view found herein should promote a more contextualized and contemporary view of what studying Italy can be about.

Henrike Evers zeigt interkulturelle Kompetenz als Persönlichkeitsentwicklung im Sinne von transformatorischen Bildungsprozessen nach Kokemohr/Koller und erfasst sie empirisch mit der dokumentarischen Methode nach Bohnsack anhand rekonstruierter Orientierungsrahmen. Mit dieser induktiven Herangehensweise ermöglicht die Autorin den Anschluss interkultureller Kompetenz an konstruktivistische Kulturtheorien wie Hybridität. Als Bedingungen für transformatorische Bildungsprozesse hat sie u. a. eine Kombination aus Offenheit und Eingehen von intensiven persönlichen Beziehungen herausgearbeitet, wie sie z. B. Begegnungsprogramme ermöglichen.

This volume captures the essence of how we communicate differences in relationships, between and across cultures, in organizations, through education and in moments of local and global conflict and crisis that demonstrates the importance and viability of approaching peace and conflict communication from various fields within communication studies.

This volume contributes to diversity research within communication studies taking into consideration the representation and implementation of social and cultural diversity in the public sphere, particularly in the mass media. In the first part, concepts of diversity are outlined with respect to a normative claim. In the second part, the focus lies on particular political decision-making and implementation of diversity measures in media regulation, public diplomacy and science. The last part presents analyses regarding the construction of diversity in internationally traded TV programmes.

Weltweite Kommunikation prägt unseren Alltag. Dabei heben die technischen Möglichkeiten der globalen Vernetzung interkulturelle Differenzen hervor und befördern neue Grenzziehungen (Exklusionsmechanismen). Interkulturelle Kompetenz gilt nun als wichtige vermittelnde Qualifikation, die im eigenen Wohnviertel genauso gefragt ist wie im international tätigen Unternehmen. Die Stichworte »Grenzen«, »Differenzen« und »Übergänge« stehen für eine Fülle von Forschungsfragen, mit denen sich in den vergangenen Jahren nahezu alle Disziplinen der Geistes- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften beschäftigt haben. In 19 Beiträgen vermittelt dieser Band einen umfassenden Einblick in die unterschiedlichen Herangehensweisen und Forschungsdebatten der Politik- und Rechtswissenschaften, der Ökonomie, Soziologie, Psychologie, Ethnologie, Literatur- und Medienwissenschaften, der Geschichtsforschung sowie der Philosophie.

Wie präsentiert sich der Humanismus im Zeitalter der Globalisierung? Welche Alternativen bieten sich dem traditionellen, oft ethnozentrisch geprägten europäischen Humanismus im 21. Jahrhundert? Die aktuelle globale, an neuen Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten, aber auch an kulturellen und religiösen Konflikten reiche Weltlage, stellt die modernen Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften vor brisante Fragen. Ausgehend von verschiedenen Disziplinen und kulturellen Kontexten reflektieren und diskutieren die Beiträge des transdisziplinären Bandes den Humanismus im Zeitalter der Globalisierung.

In Neutral Accent, A. Aneesh employs India's call centers as useful sites for studying global change. The horizon of global economic shift, the consequences of global integration, and the ways in which call center work'neutralizes'racial, ethnic, and national identities become visible from the confines of their cubicles. In his interviews with call service workers and in his own work in a call center in the high tech metropolis of Gurgoan, India, Aneesh observed the difficulties these workers face in bridging cultures, laws, and economies: having to speak in an accent that does not betray their ethnicity, location, or social background; learning foreign social norms; and working graveyard shifts to accommodate international customers. Call center work is cast as independent of place, space, and time, and its neutrality—which Aneesh defines as indifference to difference—has become normal business practice in a global economy. The work of call center employees in the globally integrated marketplace comes at a cost, however, as they become disconnected from the local interactions and personal relationships that make their lives anything but neutral.

Das Buch vermittelt die Grundlagen interkultureller Kompetenzen mithilfe gezielter Fragestellungen: Wie entsteht Kultur? Was ist Interkulturalität? Welche Unterschiede gibt es zwischen Kulturen? Wie formt kulturelles Wissen unser Wirklichkeitsbild? Wie hängen Fremdbilder und Identität zusammen? Und wie kommuniziert man erfolgreich mit Mitgliedern anderer Kulturen? Mit vielen übersichtlichen Darstellungen, zahlreichen Begriffsdefinitionen und Fallbeispielen zur vielleicht wichtigsten Kernkompetenz des 21. Jahrhunderts! Uni-Wissen Kernkompetenzen - orientiert sich an den Anforderungen der neuen Bachelor- und Masterstudiengänge - kombiniert wissenschaftlich fundiertes Wissen mit anwendungsnahen, praxisrelevanten Ratschlägen - ermöglicht erfolgreiches Studieren durch kompakte und systematische Vermittlung von übergreifenden Schlüsselqualifikationen und erleichtert den Berufseinstieg.

Mehr als zehn Jahre engagierte sich die VolkswagenStiftung mit den Initiativen »Das'Fremde'und das'Eigene'- Probleme und Möglichkeiten interkulturellen Verstehens« (1992 - 1999) und »Konstruktionen des'Fremden'und des'Eigenen': Prozesse interkultureller Abgrenzung, Vermittlung und Identitätsbildung« (1999 - 2006) für die Forschungsfelder Interkulturalität und Identitätsbildungsprozesse. Insgesamt förderte die Stiftung in diesem Zusammenhang 181 Forschungsvorhaben. Die vorliegende Dokumentation bietet Wissenschaftler/inne/n, Journalist/inn/en und Praktiker/inne/n eine informative Übersicht über die Inhalte und wichtigsten Ergebnisse der geförderten Projekte. Mehr als 150 Autorinnen und Autoren aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen prägen den lebendigen Stil dieser ambitionierten Dokumentation, die aktuellste Forschungsergebnisse disziplinübergreifend zum wichtigen Thema »Interkulturalität« zusammenträgt und einer interessierten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich machen möchte.

Individuelle Schicksale, subjektive Wahrnehmungen und Interaktionen aus dem bikulturell geprägten Berufsalltag befragter Chinesen und Deutscher verdichten sich in dieser qualitativen Feldstudie zu einem unmittelbaren Einblick in die Problematik interkultureller Zusammenarbeit. Damit wird eine Lücke in der Forschung rund um die deutsch-chinesische Zusammenarbeit geschlossen. Dem wissenschaftlichen Experten wie auch dem Berufspraktiker erschließen sich so die Erfahrungen, Wahrnehmungen und Argumentationsweisen derjenigen, die eigentlich immer im Fokus interkultureller Forschung stehen sollten: der Beteiligten.

The intercultural occurs in the space between two or more distinct cultures that encounter each other, an area where meanings are translated and difference is negotiated. In this volume, scholars from diverse disciplines reflect on the phenomenon of interculturality and on the theoretical and methodological frameworks of interpreting it

Die Aufsatzsammlung gibt einen Einblick in die theoretische Konzeption eines der zentralen Probleme der Soziologie und der Sozialanthropologie - Grenzen und Grenzziehungen - und überführt es in eine globale Perspektive. In diesem Programm werden interkulturelle Dialoge als Kommunikationssysteme begriffen, in denen sinnstiftende Zeichen aus lokalen und globalen Kontexten über Grenzen hinweg artikuliert und sichtbar gemacht werden. In diesem Sinne versteht sich das auf empirischen Forschungen in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika basierende Projekt zugleich als eine politische Anthropologie des Alltags.

As migration is described as a problem, mobility is seen as a goal. In a'Europe without Borders', a place that prides itself on multiculturalism while struggling with racism, two opposing paradigms characterise contemporary discussions surrounding migrants. Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste aims to interrogate the familiar debates, evolving new textual and interdisciplinary approaches to European cultural policies and unmasking the assumptions of the essentialist identity politics that go undeclared at the borders of cultural discourse. Twelve leading figures in post-colonial and translation studies, political philosophy, art, radical aesthetics, policy-making and sociology, reflect on the political and cultural meanings of migration; their arguments framed by artworks that provide glimpses of cross-cultural encounters. Essays - including a meditation on'wasted lives'by internationally renowned academic Zygmunt Bauman - explore the challenges of migration, history and integration and attempt to develop radical new figurations of migrant identity, underlining the necessity of an imaginative reach towards'The Other'.This book brings together the roles of translation and of art in the central metaphor of waste - the trail of rubbish left behind by mechanisms of mobility; the excised narratives of wasted identities and people.