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Silence in Intercultural Communication: Perceptions and Performance

By Ikuko Nakane

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
2007
ISBN
9027254109, 9789027254108, 9789027291776
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1272466 bytes)
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 166
Pages
240\257
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Языки и языкознание;Межкультурная коммуникация

Description

How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives, this book shows how silence is used, perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication — linguistic, cognitive and sociopsychological — and fundamental levels of social organization — individual, situational and sociocultural — the book explores the intricate relationship between perceptions and performance of silence in interaction involving Japanese and Australian participants. Through a combination of macro- and micro-ethnographic analyses of university seminar interactions, the stereotypes of the ‘silent East’ is reconsidered, and the tension between local and sociocultural perspectives of intercultural communication is addressed. The book has relevance to researchers and students in intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis and applied linguistics.

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