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Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication : Communicating As a Global Citizen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (213 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781135136321
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.48/2
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Contents:
Cover -- Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Tracing the Trajectories of Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication -- 2 Establishing Links between Cosmopolitanism and Intercultural Communication -- 3 Cultural Identity, Communication and Critical Self-Transformation: Towards Cosmopolitan Peoplehood -- 4 The Role of the Imagination and Kindness to Strangers: Cosmopolitan Peoplehood -- 5 Differentiating Cosmopolitanism from Other Intercultural Communication Concepts -- 6 Cosmopolitanism, Methods and Operationalization -- 7 Communication Studies and Cosmopolitanism -- 8 Towards a Cosmopolitan Pedagogy in Intercultural Communication -- 9 Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
Summary: This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and future research in the area. It emphasizes the postcolonial perspective in order to raise critical consciousness about the complexities of intercultural communication in a globalizing world, situating cosmopolitanism -- the notion of global citizenship -- as a multipurpose lens for research. Cosmopolitanism as a theoretical repertoire provides nuanced descriptions of what it means to be and communicate as a global citizen, how to study interconnectedness within and across cultures, and how to embrace differences without glossing over them. Moving intercultural communication studies towards the global in complex and nuanced ways, this book highlights crucial links between globalization, transnationalism, postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, and intercultural communication, and helps in the creation of classroom spaces devoted to exploring these links. It engages the links between theory and praxis in order to move towards intercultural communication pedagogy and research that simultaneously celebrates and interrogates issues of cultural difference with the aim of creating continuity rather than chasms. In sum, this book orients intercultural communication scholarship firmly towards the critical and postcolonial, while still allowing the incorporation of traditional intercultural communication concepts, thereby preparing students, scholars, educators and interculturalists to communicate ethically in a world that is simultaneously global and local.
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Cover -- Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Tracing the Trajectories of Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication -- 2 Establishing Links between Cosmopolitanism and Intercultural Communication -- 3 Cultural Identity, Communication and Critical Self-Transformation: Towards Cosmopolitan Peoplehood -- 4 The Role of the Imagination and Kindness to Strangers: Cosmopolitan Peoplehood -- 5 Differentiating Cosmopolitanism from Other Intercultural Communication Concepts -- 6 Cosmopolitanism, Methods and Operationalization -- 7 Communication Studies and Cosmopolitanism -- 8 Towards a Cosmopolitan Pedagogy in Intercultural Communication -- 9 Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and future research in the area. It emphasizes the postcolonial perspective in order to raise critical consciousness about the complexities of intercultural communication in a globalizing world, situating cosmopolitanism -- the notion of global citizenship -- as a multipurpose lens for research. Cosmopolitanism as a theoretical repertoire provides nuanced descriptions of what it means to be and communicate as a global citizen, how to study interconnectedness within and across cultures, and how to embrace differences without glossing over them. Moving intercultural communication studies towards the global in complex and nuanced ways, this book highlights crucial links between globalization, transnationalism, postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, and intercultural communication, and helps in the creation of classroom spaces devoted to exploring these links. It engages the links between theory and praxis in order to move towards intercultural communication pedagogy and research that simultaneously celebrates and interrogates issues of cultural difference with the aim of creating continuity rather than chasms. In sum, this book orients intercultural communication scholarship firmly towards the critical and postcolonial, while still allowing the incorporation of traditional intercultural communication concepts, thereby preparing students, scholars, educators and interculturalists to communicate ethically in a world that is simultaneously global and local.

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