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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019170003321

Titolo

Negotiating cultural encounters : narrating intercultural engineering and technical communication / / edited by Han Yu, Gerald Savage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013

ISBN

1-299-31481-3

1-118-50484-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

IEEE PCS professional engineering communication series

Altri autori (Persone)

YuHan <1980->

SavageGerald J

Disciplina

303.48/2

Soggetti

Communication of technical information

Intercultural communication

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Preface; A Note from the Series Editor; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Changing Times, Changing Style Guides; CHAPTER 2 Concinnity of Assorted Nuts; CHAPTER 3 Learning Curve; CHAPTER 4 Lost in Translation; CHAPTER 5 Collective Learning in East Africa: Building and Transferring Technical Knowledge in Livestock Production; CHAPTER 6 That's Worth Waiting For: GLDD's Spanish JSA Booklet; CHAPTER 7 Making Excellence a Habit across Interculturai Barriers; CHAPTER 8 Crash of Cultures

CHAPTER 9 Collaboration on a Pan-European Project Spanning 35 National Research and Education Networks across the European UnionCHAPTER 10 Are Chinese Documents Ready for Global Audiences?; CHAPTER 11 Subject Matter Expert Meets Technical Communicator: Stories of Mestiza Consciousness in the Automotive Industry; CHAPTER 12 My Life as an EFL Trainer/Technical Translator in Shanghai, China; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Discusses the challenges of intercultural communication in engineering, technical, and related professional fields  Given today's globalized technical and engineering environment, intercultural communication is an essential topic for engineers, other technical professionals, and technical communicators to learn. Engineering



programs, in particular, need to think about how to address the ABET requirement for students to develop global competence and communication skills. This book will help readers learn what intercultural communication is like in the workplace-which is an import