ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication provides a comprehensive historical survey of language and intercultural communication studies with a critical assessment of past and present theory, research, and practice, as well as an insight into future directions.

Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars from different parts of the world, this second edition offers updated chapters by returning authors and many new contributions on a broad range of topics, including reflexivity and criticality, translanguaging, and social justice in relation to intercultural communication.With an emphasis on contemporary, critical perspectives, this handbook showcases the varied range of issues, perspectives, and approaches that characterise this increasingly important field in today’s globalised world.

Offering 34 chapters with examples from a variety of languages and international settings, this handbook is an indispensable resource for students and scholars working in the fields of intercultural communication, applied linguistics, TESOL/ TEFL, and communication studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction and overview

Section I: Foundations of language and intercultural communication studies

A global look at the history and development of language and intercultural communication studies

Culture, communication, context, and power

Language, identity, and intercultural communication

Conceptualizing intercultural (communicative) competence and intercultural citizenship

Reflexivity and criticality in language and intercultural communication research and practice

Section II: Core Themes and issues

Language, culture, and communication

Linguaculture and transnationality: the cultural dimensions of language

Intercultural rhetoric and intercultural communication

Interculturality and intercultural pragmatics

Speech acts, facework, and politeness: sociopragmatics, facework, and intercultural relationship-building

Translation, interpreting, and intercultural communication

Language, identity, and intercultural communication

Constructing the cultural Other: prejudice and stereotyping

Intercultural contact, hybridity, and third space

Gender, language, identity, and intercultural communication

Translanguaging, identity, and migration

Language learning, identity, and intercultural communication in contexts of conflict and insecurity

Language, intercultural (communicative) competence, and intercultural citizenship

Language: an essential component of intercultural communicative competence

From native speaker to intercultural speaker and beyond: intercultural (communicative) competence in foreign language education

World Englishes and intercultural communication

Language education and global citizenship: decolonial and posthuman perspectives through pedagogies of discomfort

Section III: Theory into practice: Towards intercultural (communicative) competence and citizenship

Intercultural second language teacher education

Intercultural responsibility: transnational research and glocal critical citizenship

Intercultural communicative competence development through telecollaboration and virtual exchange

Social justice, diversity, and intercultural-global citizenship education in the global context

Assessing intercultural language learning

Section IV: Language and intercultural communication in context

Intercultural language teaching and learning in classroom practice

Intercultural communication in the multicultural classroom

The language and intercultural dimension of education abroad

Intercultural business education: the role of critical theory and experiential learning

Intercultural communication in professional and workplace settings

Linguistically and culturally diverse project partnerships and teams

Intercultural communication in health care settings

Intercultural communication in legal contexts

Intercultural communication in tourism

Section V: New Debates and future directions

A global agenda for ethical language and intercultural communication research and practice

Index