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[Commlist] New Book on Intercultural Communication

Fri Feb 26 03:47:43 GMT 2021






New Book on Intercultural Communication

Title: A Perceptual Architecture of Intercultural Competence - Avenues for Tracking Cultural Expertise
Author: Birgit Breninger
Prefaced by Georg Northoff
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars 2021

This book invites the reader to take a leap of faith and envision a new way of thinking about communication and culture and particularly the relevance of perception. The bold endeavour here is to reconceive intercultural communication from a bio-cultural perspective for the purpose of helping to create more caring and just multicultural environments. The ultimate challenge we have to face is the pressing need to understand interdisciplinary complexities regarding living beings and their environments, i.e. behaviours, mindsets, attitudes, decision-making processes and emotions in specific situations and varying contexts. It is pivotal to investigate communication not solely from a social science stance but at the very interface of other disciplines, as of here: biology and neuroscience. Few phenomena have incited as much passion as the unravelling of what ‘intercultural competence’ means. This book presents a novel, bio-cultural approach towards intercultural competence, arguing that a relevant perceptual architecture must be set up via acting competently in various contexts and situations over time. The enactive framework proposes various levels of integration of cultural differences fundamental for communicating and acting effectively in multicultural environments. Intercultural competence emerges here from the co-activation of specific sets of expertise, such as creativity, morality and gender, for which the integration of cultural otherness provides the pivotal axis. A specific perceptual architecture results from such novel functional connections, via the integration of cultural otherness into highly interlinked perception, cognition, affect and action systems.

More information: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-6366-7 <https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-6366-7>




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