Short description:

Providing a comprehensive historical survey of language and intercultural communication studies, this handbook is an indispensable resource for students and scholars working in the fields of intercultural communication, applied linguistics, TESOL/TEFL and communication studies.

Long description:

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.

From reviews of the first edition:

'This volume ?fills gaps between national demarcations and serves as a bridge for educators, policymakers, and others interested in and/or working in the field... Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.'

K. Liu, CUNY in CHOICE

'This stimulating volume dwells in the realm of the "inter," engaging the complexity of the interdisciplinary perspective and the interrelated theories and models that inform our intercultural work,? offering expertise, insight, and resources for teaching and learning language and culture.'

Janet M. Bennett, Executive Director, Intercultural Communication Institute, USA

'Jane Jackson has managed to assemble a multidisciplinary volume of amazing breadth. In a field as fragmented and contested as Intercultural Communication, the diversity and polyphony of research traditions, approaches and contexts brought together in this handbook is an impressive achievement.'

Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University, Australia

Table of Contents:

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 global 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.