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ISBN-101847873871

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Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameIntercultural Communication and Ideology

Publication Year2010

SubjectCommunication Studies, International / Economics, Sociology / General, Globalization, International Relations / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Business & Economics

AuthorAdrian Holliday

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LCCN2010-928263

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ReviewsTaking on issues normally left in the margins, the author of Intercultural Communication and Ideology has revised the way we think of intercultural communication by insisting that we consider its ideological component. In this brilliant and engaging book about culture and the interstices that comprise the grounds for our interactions, Adrian Holliday shows us the necessity for a cosmopolitan process that expands the basis of our intercultural work. This is a compelling book that should be read by scholars and the general public alike. It is accessible, factual, and clear Molefi Kete Asante Professor, Department of African American Studies at Temple University and author of 'Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation', Taking on issues normally left in the margins, the author of Intercultural Communication and Ideology has revised the way we think of intercultural communication by insisting that we consider its ideological component. In this brilliant and engaging book about culture and the interstices that comprise the grounds for our interactions, Adrian Holliday shows us the necessity for a cosmopolitan process that expands the basis of our intercultural work. This is a compelling book that should be read by scholars and the general public alike. It is accessible, factual, and clear Molefi Kete Asante Professor, Department of African American Studies at Temple University and author of 'Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation' Adrian Hollidaye(tm)s highly readable and thought provoking volume is a welcome addition to the existing body of work on Intercultural Communication and Ideology. The rich dataset and analysis of well selected excerpts challenge essentialistic understandings of the notion of culture and linguistic behaviour. With its comprehensive coverage of studies in the field and critical discussion of dominant theoretical paradigms, this refreshing book provides a valuable resource for both students and experienced researchers but also everyone interested in Intercultural Communication. An authoritative and open minded book the field will embrace Jo Angouri Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, University of the West of England, Bristol For interculturalists who feel limited by the essentialistic constraints of the individualismllectivism divide and by the West's propensity to define culture as nationality, Intercultural Communication and Ideology offers a refreshing and more complex frame for analyzing and theorizing intercultural communication. Advocating a critical cosmopolitan approach as analytical frame, Holliday attends to the influence of ideology and the marginalization of non-Western cultural realities typical within traditional schools of thought in intercultural communication studies. A must read for those interested in understanding and analyzing intercultural interactions in more complex ways than offered by traditional Western perspectives Dreama G. Moon Professor, California State University, San Marcos, CA, USA, Taking on issues normally left in the margins, the author of Intercultural Communication and Ideology has revised the way we think of intercultural communication by insisting that we consider its ideological component. In this brilliant and engaging book about culture and the interstices that comprise the grounds for our interactions, Adrian Holliday shows us the necessity for a cosmopolitan process that expands the basis of our intercultural work. This is a compelling book that should be read by scholars and the general public alike. It is accessible, factual, and clear Molefi Kete Asante Professor, Department of African American Studies at Temple University and author of 'Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation' Adrian Holliday "s highly readable and thought provoking volume is a welcome addition to the existing body of work on Intercultural Communication and Ideology. The rich dataset and analysis of well selected excerpts challenge essentialistic understandings of the notion of culture and linguistic behaviour. With its comprehensive coverage of studies in the field and critical discussion of dominant theoretical paradigms, this refreshing book provides a valuable resource for both students and experienced researchers but also everyone interested in Intercultural Communication. An authoritative and open minded book the field will embrace Jo Angouri Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, University of the West of England, Bristol For interculturalists who feel limited by the essentialistic constraints of the individualismllectivism divide and by the West's propensity to define culture as nationality, Intercultural Communication and Ideology offers a refreshing and more complex frame for analyzing and theorizing intercultural communication. Advocating a critical cosmopolitan approach as analytical frame, Holliday attends to the influence of ideology and the marginalization of non-Western cultural realities typical within traditional schools of thought in intercultural communication studies. A must read for those interested in understanding and analyzing intercultural interactions in more complex ways than offered by traditional Western perspectives Dreama G. Moon Professor, California State University, San Marcos, CA, USA, Taking on issues normally left in the margins, the author of Intercultural Communication and Ideology has revised the way we think of intercultural communication by insisting that we consider its ideological component. In this brilliant and engaging book about culture and the interstices that comprise the grounds for our interactions, Adrian Holliday shows us the necessity for a cosmopolitan process that expands the basis of our intercultural work. This is a compelling book that should be read by scholars and the general public alike. It is accessible, factual, and clear Molefi Kete AsanteProfessor, Department of African American Studies at Temple University and author of Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation Adrian Holliday's highly readable and thought provoking volume is a welcome addition to the existing body of work on Intercultural Communication and Ideology. The rich dataset and analysis of well selected excerpts challenge essentialistic understandings of the notion of culture and linguistic behaviour. With its comprehensive coverage of studies in the field and critical discussion of dominant theoretical paradigms, this refreshing book provides a valuable resource for both students and experienced researchers but also everyone interested in Intercultural Communication. An authoritative and open minded book the field will embrace Jo AngouriSenior Lecturer in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, University of the West of England, Bristol For interculturalists who feel limited by the essentialistic constraints of the individualismllectivism divide and by the Wests propensity to define culture as nationality, Intercultural Communication and Ideology offers a refreshing and more complex frame for analyzing and theorizing intercultural communication. Advocating a critical cosmopolitan approach as analytical frame, Holliday attends to the influence of ideology and the marginalization of non-Western cultural realities typical within traditional schools of thought in intercultural communication studies. A must read for those interested in understanding and analyzing intercultural interactions in more complex ways than offered by traditional Western perspectives Dreama G. MoonProfessor, California State University, San Marcos, CA, USA, Taking on issues normally left in the margins, the author of Intercultural Communication and Ideology has revised the way we think of intercultural communication by insisting that we consider its ideological component. In this brilliant and engaging book about culture and the interstices that comprise the grounds for our interactions, Adrian Holliday shows us the necessity for a cosmopolitan process that expands the basis of our intercultural work. This is a compelling book that should be read by scholars and the general public alike. It is accessible, factual, and clear Molefi Kete Asante Professor, Department of African American Studies at Temple University and author of 'Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation' Adrian Holliday's highly readable and thought provoking volume is a welcome addition to the existing body of work on Intercultural Communication and Ideology. The rich dataset and analysis of well selected excerpts challenge essentialistic understandings of the notion of culture and linguistic behaviour. With its comprehensive coverage of studies in the field and critical discussion of dominant theoretical paradigms, this refreshing book provides a valuable resource for both students and experienced researchers but also everyone interested in Intercultural Communication. An authoritative and open minded book the field will embrace Jo Angouri Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, University of the West of England, Bristol For interculturalists who feel limited by the essentialistic constraints of the individualismllectivism divide and by the West's propensity to define culture as nationality, Intercultural Communication and Ideology offers a refreshing and more complex frame for analyzing and theorizing intercultural communication. Advocating a critical cosmopolitan approach as analytical frame, Holliday attends to the influence of ideology and the marginalization of non-Western cultural realities typical within traditional schools of thought in intercultural communication studies. A must read for those interested in understanding and analyzing intercultural interactions in more complex ways than offered by traditional Western perspectives Dreama G. Moon Professor, California State University, San Marcos, CA, USA

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal303.482

Table Of ContentPreface and methodologyChapter 1: Key Discussions Essentialism Neo-Essentialism Cosmopolitanism Imagined Certainty versus Acknowledged ComplexityChapter 2: Critical Cultural Awareness Models of Awareness A Reconstructed Narrative Critical Interpretivism A Decentred Reading Opening up Cultural PossibilitiesChapter 3: Cultural Complexity Informants An Emergent Methodology Statements of Cultural Identity Competing Social Theories Complexity and Politics Thinking about ChinaChapter 4: The Indelible Politics of Self and Other Othering The Morality of Helping Struggling with Identity Recognition Understanding the Discourse Politics of OtheringChapter 5: Un-Noticed Periphery Identities Claiming the World Westernization and ModernityChapter 6: A Grammar of Culture Negotiating Culture Particular Content and Universal Process Particular Social and Political Structures Particular Cultural Products Underlying Universal Cultural ProcessesChapter 7: Discourses of Cultural Disbelief Penetrating Professional Discourses Sustained Disbelief The Intercultural Line and the Third SpaceChapter 8: Creative Cultural Engagement Qing and the Seminar Learning from the MarginsChapter 9: Culture, Real or Imagined? The Centrality of Ideology The Fact of Ideology Cultural Realism ConclusionGlossary

SynopsisAlthough communication is central to the Humanities and Social Sciences, the inter-cultural level is often peculiarly, left out of accounts. So what is intercultural communication? How does it relate to global processes and questions of identity? Intercultural Communication & Ideology examines the main feature of intercultural communication. It critically examines the main positions in the field. It addresses intercultural communication within the context of global politics. It seeks to address the specific problems that derive from Western ideology and it sets out an agenda for research. The book investigates categories of cultural action and itemizes the machinery for the illumination of inter-cultural processes. Holliday shows how a dialogue between national structures and creative universal cultural skills can be carried on in new locations. He relates intercultural communication to the topics of multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and globalization. The book addresses how ideology permeates inter-cultural processes and develops an alternative grammar' of culture. Insightful, bold and inspirational, the book is a landmark contribution to the field., Taking on issues normally left in the margins, Intercultural Communication and Ideology revises the way we think of intercultural communication by insisting that we consider its ideological component. In this brilliant and engaging book about culture and the interstices that comprise the grounds for our interactions, Adrian Holliday shows us the necessity for a cosmopolitan process that expands the basis of our intercultural work. - Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University "Adrian Holliday's highly readable and thought provoking volume is a welcome addition to the existing body of work on intercultural communication and ideology... With its comprehensive coverage of studies in the field and critical discussion of dominant theoretical paradigms, this refreshing book provides a valuable resource for both students and experienced researchers but also everyone interested in intercultural communication. An authoritative and open minded book the field will embrace." - Jo Angouri, University of the West of England Although communication is central to the humanities and social sciences, the inter-cultural level is often, peculiarly, left out of accounts. So what is intercultural communication? How does it relate to global processes and questions of identity? This comprehensive book examines the main features of intercultural communication. It critically examines the main positions in the field. It addresses intercultural communication within the context of global politics, both addressing the specific problems that derive from Western ideology and setting out an agenda for research. The book investigates categories of cultural action and itemizes the machinery for the illumination of inter-cultural processes. Holliday shows how a dialogue between national structures and creative universal cultural skills can be carried on in new locations, relating intercultural communication to theories of multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and globalization, while also exploring how ideology permeates inter-cultural processes and develops an alternative 'grammar' of culture., A cutting text that offers a critical approach to current theories and practices of intercultural communication, and invites students and professionals to explore alternative concepts and to become aware of cultural prejudices., Taking on issues normally left in the margins, Intercultural Communication and Ideology revises the way we think of intercultural communication by insisting that we consider its ideological component. In this brilliant and engaging book about culture and the interstices that comprise the grounds for our interactions, Adrian Holliday shows us the necessity for a cosmopolitan process that expands the basis of our intercultural work. - Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University "Adrian Holliday's highly readable and thought provoking volume is a welcome addition to the existing body of work on intercultural communication and ideology... With its comprehensive coverage of studies in the field and critical discussion of dominant theoretical paradigms, this refreshing book provides a valuable resource for both students and experienced researchers but also everyone interested in intercultural communication. An authoritative and open minded book the field will embrace." - Jo Angouri, University of the West of England Although communication is central to the humanities and social sciences, the inter-cultural level is often, peculiarly, left out of accounts. So what is intercultural communication? How does it relate to global processes and questions of identity? This comprehensive book examines the main features of intercultural communication. It critically examines the main positions in the field. It addresses intercultural communication within the context of global politics, both addressing the specific problems that derive from Western ideology and setting out an agenda for research. The book investigates categories of cultural action and itemizes the machinery for the illumination of inter-cultural processes. Holliday shows how a dialogue between national structures and creative universal cultural skills can be carried on in new locations, relating intercultural communication to theories of multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and globalization, while also exploring how ideology permeates inter-cultural processes and develops an alternative grammar of culture.

LC Classification NumberHM1211