El periodo en que vivimos está marcado por encuentros culturales de todo tipo, encuentros cada vez más frecuentes e intensos. Sin embargo, reaccionamos ante ello; es imposible ignorar la tendencia hacia la mezcla y la hibridación: del judaísmo Zen a la comida occidental con soja…
Intercultural Pragmatics studies how language systems are used in social encounters between speakers who have different first languages and cultures, yet communicate in a common language. The field first emerged in the early 21st century, joining two seemingly antagonistic appro…
Recoge: 1. Approaches to intercultural communication, 2. Identity: issues of belonging, 3. International cultures: understanding diversity, 4. Co-cultures: multiculturalism in the United States, 5. Intercultural messages: verbal and nonverbal communication, 6. Cultural contexts:…
Words in motion: toward a global lexicon
"Using a wide range of examples such as research papers, business reports, performance commentaries, professional guidebooks and legal documents, this book examines the discourse of professional writing. Employing a number of analytic paradigms including systemic functional ling…