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English across Cultures. Cultures across English : A Reader in Cross-cultural Communication / ed. by Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 53Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©1989Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (492 p.) : 4 KtnContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110118117
  • 9783110848328
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420/.1/9 22
LOC classification:
  • PE2751 .E529 1989eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword -- The Authors -- The Editors -- Contents -- Introduction -- ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES -- Section One: The impact of differences in socio-cultural backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Socio-pragmatic constraints -- Some types of communicative strategies across cultures: Sense and sensitivity -- English as object and medium of (mis)understanding -- The (mis)identification of regional and national accents of English: Pragmatic, cognitive and social aspects -- Culture and language in classroom communication -- English for academic purposes: A hidden curriculum in ways of speaking -- Invisible culture in the classroom: Minority pupils and the principle of adaptation -- ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES -- Section Two: The impact of differences in socio-political realities on communication in English: Macro-societal constraints -- Intercultural miscommunication as a source of friction in the workplace and in educational settings in South Africa -- Socio-political influence on cultural identity in Canada: Implications for cross-cultural communication in English -- English as problem and resource in Sri Lankan Universities -- They speak English, don’t they? -- CULTURES ACROSS ENGLISH -- Section Three: The impact of differences in socio-linguistic backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Ethno-linguistic constraints -- British-American lexical differences: A typology of interdialectal variation -- Questions of standards and intra-regional differences in Caribbean examinations -- Structural mimicry in decreolization and its effect on pseudocomprehension -- Cultural congruence and conflict in the acquisition of formulae in a second language -- Dialectology in our time? The English of the Cajuns -- Flexibility in lexical usage in Cameroon English -- Cultures in conflict: Varieties of English in Northern Ireland -- Patois and the politics of protest: Black English in British classrooms -- Code-switching in narrative performance: A Puerto Rican speech community in New York -- Social and linguistic parameters of prosody in Chicano English -- Central Canadian English and Received Standard English. A comparison of pronunciation -- Indian literature in English -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- 493-494
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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- The Authors -- The Editors -- Contents -- Introduction -- ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES -- Section One: The impact of differences in socio-cultural backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Socio-pragmatic constraints -- Some types of communicative strategies across cultures: Sense and sensitivity -- English as object and medium of (mis)understanding -- The (mis)identification of regional and national accents of English: Pragmatic, cognitive and social aspects -- Culture and language in classroom communication -- English for academic purposes: A hidden curriculum in ways of speaking -- Invisible culture in the classroom: Minority pupils and the principle of adaptation -- ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES -- Section Two: The impact of differences in socio-political realities on communication in English: Macro-societal constraints -- Intercultural miscommunication as a source of friction in the workplace and in educational settings in South Africa -- Socio-political influence on cultural identity in Canada: Implications for cross-cultural communication in English -- English as problem and resource in Sri Lankan Universities -- They speak English, don’t they? -- CULTURES ACROSS ENGLISH -- Section Three: The impact of differences in socio-linguistic backgrounds of interlocutors on communication in English: Ethno-linguistic constraints -- British-American lexical differences: A typology of interdialectal variation -- Questions of standards and intra-regional differences in Caribbean examinations -- Structural mimicry in decreolization and its effect on pseudocomprehension -- Cultural congruence and conflict in the acquisition of formulae in a second language -- Dialectology in our time? The English of the Cajuns -- Flexibility in lexical usage in Cameroon English -- Cultures in conflict: Varieties of English in Northern Ireland -- Patois and the politics of protest: Black English in British classrooms -- Code-switching in narrative performance: A Puerto Rican speech community in New York -- Social and linguistic parameters of prosody in Chicano English -- Central Canadian English and Received Standard English. A comparison of pronunciation -- Indian literature in English -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- 493-494

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