Analyzing Intercultural Communication

Edited by Karlfried Knapp, Werner Enninger and Annelie Knapp-Potthoff.

Eleven articles (preceded by an introductory essay) address fve fields of research: Ι. Socio-political contexts of intercultural communication; II. Socio-psychological perspectives of intercultural communication; III. Language choice; IV. Discourse processes; V. Selected elements of discourse. - From the Table of Contents: Karlfried Knapp/Annelie Knapp-Potthoff: Instead of an introduction: Conceptual issues in analyzing intercultural communication. - Alan Murray/Ranjit Sondhi: Socio-political influences on cross-cultural encounters Notes towards a framework for the analysis of context. - Mansur Lalljee: Attribution theory and intercultural communication. - Giesela Apitzsch/Norbert Dittmar: Contact between German and Turkish adolescents. A case study. - Sherida Altehenger-Smith: Language choice in multilingual societies: A Singapore case study. - Florian Coulmas: Why speak English? - Celia Roberts/Pete Sayers: Keeping the gate. How judgements are made in interethnic interviews. - Volker Hinnenkamp: Foreigner talk, code switching and the concept of trouble. - Annelie Knapp-Potthoff/Karlfried Knapp: The man (or woman) in the middle. Discoursal aspects of non-professional interpreting. - Jochen Rehbein: Multiple formulae Aspects of Turkish migrant workers' German in intercultural communication. - Judith Stalpers: The use of alors in French-Dutch negotiations: A case study. - Werner Enninger: What interactants do with non-talk across cultures. VIII,319 Seiten, gebunden (Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; Vol. 1/Mouton de Gruyter 1987) leichte Gebrauchsspuren, Namenseintrag auf Vorsatzblatt, sonst textsauber/minor traces of use, name inscribed on front endpaper, otherwise clean text pages