This is a practical guide for international business people who sell, manage and negotiate across cultures since it is designed to prepare the business visitor to conduct effective negotiations in the world's major markets.
This book challenges the cultural imbalance in current research traditions, and argues for a culturalist perspective in facilitating better intercultural exchange amidst accelerated processes of globalization. It is the first engagement with discourses in non-mainstream cultures…
Intercultural communication for everyday life
This eye-opening reader explores how communication values and styles can be similar or different for members of various cultures and communities. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A READER focuses on practical strategies you can use to communicate more effectively in a variety of con…
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Collection of essays focusing on the roles of intermediaries such as brokers and spies, messengers and translators, missionaries and entrepreneurs, in linking different parts of the ever more densely entangled systems of knowledge production and circulation at a key moment in th…
The transcript from two Convention refugee hearings in Canada are analysed in detail in this book with a view to demonstrating that such hearings can usefully be seen as tests of a refugee claimant's ability to construct an appropriate version of a "productive Other", in this ca…
This book is a description of the process of constructing a productive Other for the purpose of being admitted to Canada as a Convention refugee. The whole claiming procedure is analyzed with respect to two actual cases, and contextualized by reference to pertinent national and …
Many textbooks on intercultural communication are not written with an intercultural readership in mind. This team of authors has, on the other hand, put together an introduction to communicating across cultures that draws on examples and case studies from across the world, using…