Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series editors’ preface — ix ; Acknowledgements — xi ; How to use this book — xiii ; SECTION A: Introduction – Defining concepts — p. 1 ; Theme 1: Identity — p. 7 ; Unit A1.1 People like me — p. 7 ; Unit A1.2 Artefacts of culture — p. 11 ; Unit A1.3 Identity card — p. 18 ; Theme 2: Othering — p. 23 ; Unit A2.1 Communication is about not presuming — p. 23 ; Unit A2.2 Stamping identity on new language — p. 27 ; Unit A2.3 Power and discourse — p. 32 ; Theme 3: Representation — p. 38 ; Unit A3.1 Cultural refugee — p. 38 ; Unit A3.2 Complex images — p. 44 ; Unit A3.3 The paradoxes of institutional life — p. 50 ; Unit A3.4 Disciplines for intercultural communication — p. 55 ; SECTION B: Extension — p. 59 ; Introduction to Section B — p. 61 ; Unit B0.1 Current and previous approaches to the study of intercultural communication — p. 61 ; Unit B0.2 Essentialist and non‑essentialist approaches to ‘culture’ — p. 71 ; Theme 1: Identity (Section B) — p. 80 ; Unit B1.1 Questions of identity — p. 80 ; Unit B1.2 Discourse and identity — p. 87 ; Unit B1.3 Cosmopolitanism and identity — p. 97 ; Unit B1.4 Discourse, identity and intercultural communication — p. 104 ; Unit B1.5 Identity and language learning — p. 113 ; Theme 2: Othering (Section B) — starts p. 123 (page range not specified) ; [and so on through Section C…]

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