ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES CULTURES ACROSS ENGLISH: A READER IN CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Written by Ofelia Garcia, Ricardo Otheguy
Published by Mouton De Gruyter
in 1989
ISBN: 0899255132
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ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES CULTURES ACROSS ENGLISH: A READER IN CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Written by Ofelia Garcia, Ricardo Otheguy.
Stock no. 1822178
1st.
1989.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition.
Contributions to the Sociology of Language series no. 53. Edited by Garcia and Otheguy. Blue cloth boards with white titles. xxi and 492 pages including index. ISBN: 0899255132. A few light scuff marks to boards else a fine copy.
Front cover
Contents
- PART 1: ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES
- Section One. The impact of differences in socio-cultural backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Socio-pragmatic constraints
- Some types of communicative strategies across cultures: Sense and sensitivity
- English as object and medium of (mis)understanding
- The (mis)identification of regional and national accents of English: Pragmatic, cognitive and social aspects
- Culture and language in classroom communication
- English for academic purposes: A hidden curriculum in ways of speaking
- Invisible culture in the classroom: Minority pupils and the principle of adaptation
- Section Two. The impact of differences in socio-political realities on communication in English: Macro-societal constraints
- Intercultural miscommunication as a source of friction in the workplace and in educational settings in South Africa
- Socio-political influence on cultural identity in Canada. Implications for cross-cultural communication in English
- English as a problem and resource in Sri Lankan Universities
- The speak English, don't they?
- PART II: CULTURES ACROSS ENGLISH
- Section Three. The impact of differences in socio-linguistic backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Ethno-linguistic constraints
- British-American lexical differences. A typology of interdialectal variation
- Questions of standards and intra-regional differences in Caribbean examinations
- Structural mimicry in decreolization and its effect on pseudocomprehension
- Cultural congruence and conflict in the acquisition of formulae in a second language
- Dialectology in our time? The English of the Cajuns
- Fleibility in lexical usage in Cameroon English
- Cultures in conflict: Varieties of English in Northern Ireland
- Section Four. The impact of differences in socio-psychological identity of interlocutors: Identity constraints
- Patois and the politics of protest: Black English in British Classrooms
- Code-switching in narrative performance: A Puerto Rican speech community in New York
- Social and linguistic parameters of prosody in Chicano English
- Central Canadian English and Received Standard English. A Comparison of pronunciation
- Indian literature in English