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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800036703321

Titolo

Language and intercultural communication in the new era / / edited by Farzad Sharifian and Maryam Jamarani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-17326-9

1-283-94208-9

0-203-08136-6

1-136-17327-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 pages)

Collana

Routledge studies in language and intercultural communication ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

JamaraniMaryam <1976->

SharifianFarzad

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Intercultural communication

Sociolinguistics

Multilingual communication

Information technology - social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Theoretical advancements -- pt. II. New technologies and intercultural communication -- pt. III. Intercultural communication in context.

Sommario/riassunto

Studies of  intercultural communication in applied linguistics initially focused on miscommunication, mainly between native and non-native speakers of English. The advent of the twenty-first century has witnessed, however, a revolution in the contexts and contents of intercultural communication; technological advances such as chat rooms, emails, personal weblogs, Facebook, Twitter, mobile text messaging on the one hand, and the accelerated pace of people's international mobility on the other have given a new meaning to the term 'intercultural communication'. Given the remarkable grow