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[ecrea] new publication - Downscaling Culture: Revisiting Intercultural Communication

Mon Oct 17 16:41:03 GMT 2016



Jaspal Singh, Argyro Kantara, Dorottya Cserző (Ed.) (2016): Downscaling Culture: Revisiting Intercultural Communication. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing [orig. 2016] [publicationStatesCont]. In the current era of globalisation, big-C Culture loses analytical purchase. However, research, as well as intercultural training and education, continues to take for granted a more or less fixed idea of culture. This volume updates intercultural communication, both its theory and its application, by utilising a theory of scales in order to understand how culture gets contextualised as speakers communicate and negotiate meaning with each other. As succinctly captured in the title of this volume, it is suggested that research can ‘downscale culture’ analytically: culture might be, but also might not be, relevant in an interaction. The 14 chapters brought together here explore the possibilities of such downscaling from a wide range of core themes in intercultural communication studies and from various research traditions, including interactional sociolinguistics, critical geography, conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, textual analysis, multimodal analysis and nexus
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One ................................................................................................. 1 Introduction Argyro Kantara, Dorottya Cserző and Jaspal Naveel Singh Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 11 The Journey Is Its Own Reward: Downscaling Culture in Intercultural Communication Research Jaspal Naveel Singh

Part I: Forming Small Cultures
Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 35 Culture as Interruption: How Participants’ Practices Make Culture as
Interaction in Lingua Franca Conversations Argyro Kantara
Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 60 We Just Eat What We Like: Downplaying Culture through Food Talk and Practices in Transnational Families Marta Wilczek-Watson Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 92 Blue Paint and White Underwear: Miscommunication and Humour in Intercultural Contexts Mabel P. Victoria Chapter Six .............................................................................................. 114 Downscaling Culture in Intercultural Interaction: The Case of Nurses’ Professional Values in New Zealand Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar
Part II: Managing Intercultural Education
Chapter Seven .......................................................................................... 141 School as Thing and Process: Using Scales to Complexify Schools Adam Wood Chapter Eight ........................................................................................... 165 Challenges in the ‘Language and Culture’ Pedagogy as Promoted in Andalusia’s ‘Bilingual Schools Program’: The Case of (Inter)cultural Content in Secondary-School Textbooks Christian Abello-Contesse and María Dolores López-Jiménez Chapter Nine ............................................................................................ 192 The Growth of English in Delhi: New Perspectives in a Multilingual Setting Shobha Satyanath and Richa Sharma

Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 228 Language Choice Negotiations in Parent-Child Interaction: Family Language Policy as a Collaborative Achievement Mina Kheirkhah
Part III: Mediated Encounters
Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 255 Pity, Mass Media and Social Scales Harriet Lloyd

Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 280 Multiscalarity and Polycentricity in Rap Artists’ Social Media Communication: Multisemiotic Negotiations of Otherness and Integration Elina Westinen Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 311 Contextualising Culture: From Transcultural Theory to the Empirical Analysis of Participants’ Practices
Yannik Porsché
Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 337 Nexus Analysis Meets Scales: An Exploration of Sites of Engagement in Videochat Interviews Dorottya Cserző

Postscript ................................................................................................. 366 Scaling the Field of Intercultural Communication: Reflections and Trajectories of Culture
Tereza Spilioti and Korina Giaxoglou


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