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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Algeo, John,; Alvarez, Celia,; Avis, Walter S.,; Cazden, Courtney B.,; Chick, Keith,; Christie, Pauline,; Dillard, J.L.,; Edwards, Viv,; Fernando, Chitra,; García, Ofelia,; Kearins, Judith,; Kinloch, A.M.,; Kleifgen, Jo Anne,; Kuiper, Koenraad,; Malcolm, Ian G.,; Mbangwana, Paul,; Mehrotra, R.R.,; Otheguy, Ricardo,; Penfield, Joyce,; Piper, David,; Platt, John,; Rivers, Shirley A.,; Saville-Troike, Muriel,; Stewart, William A.,; Tan Gek Lin, Daphne,; Todd, Loreto,; Verschueren, Jef,; Williams, R.T.,
• HerausgeberIn: García, Ofelia,; Otheguy, Ricardo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 53
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (492 p.) :; 4 Ktn.
• Other title: 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 --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110848328; 9783110636772; 9783110305616
• ISSN: 1861-0676
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110848328
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy.