Inter-cultural Communication at Work: Cultural Values in Discourse

by Michael Clyne

Overview

In this interdisciplinary study, Michael Clyne examines the impact of cultural values on discourse. Through an exploration of the role of verbal communication patterns in successful and unsuccessful communication, he sets out to integrate and develop a framework for a linguistics of inter-cultural communication. He draws on data derived from recordings of spontaneous communication in the Australian workplace among people of vastly differing backgrounds, notably European and Asian, who use English as a lingua franca. This study offers both a pragmatics and a discourse perspective, not simply analyzing data but seeking to extend the theoretical model.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521575096
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/15/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introducing the field; 2. Setting up the project; 3. Speech acts in inter-cultural discourse; 4. Variation in communication patterns and inter-cultural communication breakdown in oral discourse; 5. Written communication; 6. Towards a linguistics of inter-cultural communication; 7. Some theoretical and practical implications.