Intercultural Communication and Identity
Intercultural Communication and Identity by Ron Darvin, published by Cambridge University Press on February 15, 2024, is a new edition comprising 68 pages in English. This work explores the concept of identity and its role in intercultural interactions, emphasizing how individuals position themselves and are perceived by others in various cultural contexts.
Readers will find a thorough examination of identity as a construct, informed by social psychological, poststructuralist, and critical perspectives. The book discusses how identity is discursively constructed and mediated, challenging essentialist views of language and culture. By analyzing identity markers such as race, ethnicity, nationality, and class, it provides insights into the dynamics of intercultural encounters. Additionally, the work reviews research methodologies used to study identity in diverse settings, offering a comprehensive understanding of how identities are performed across different intercultural contexts.
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This Element asserts how identity as a construct enables a critical awareness of how speakers position themselves and are positioned by others in intercultural encounters. It discusses how identity vis-…-vis culture has been theorized through social psychological, poststructuralist, and critical lenses, and how identity is discursively constructed and mediated. Rejecting essentialist notions of language and culture, this Element demonstrates how inscriptions of identity such as race, ethnicity, nationality, and class can be used to critically examine the dynamics of situated intercultural encounters and to understand how such interactions can index competing and colluding ideologies. By examining identity research from different parts of the world, it casts a light on how identities are performed in diverse intercultural contexts and discusses research methodologies that have been employed to examine identity in intercultural communication.
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