Book description
This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical
guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural
communication. Grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and discourse
analysis, this work integrates theoretical principles and methodological
advice, presenting students, researchers, and practitioners with a
comprehensive and unified resource.
Features new original theory, expanded treatment of generations,
gender and corporate and professional discourse
Offers improved organization and added features for student and
classroom use, including advice on research projects, questions for
discussion, and references at the end of each chapter
Extensively revised with newly added material on computer mediated
communication, sexuality and globalization
Ron Scollon (1939-2009) was a Professor of Linguistics at
Georgetown University. His publications include Professional
Communication in International Settings, co-authored with Yuling
Pan and Suzanne Wong Scollon (Blackwell 2001), Discourses in Place:
Language and the Material World co-authored with Suzie Wong
Scollon (2003), and
Nexus Analysis: Discourse and the Emerging Internet co-authored
with Suzie Wong Scollon (2004).
Suzanne Wong Scollon is an independent researcher in the North
Pacific Rim. She has written extensively on intercultural
communication, holding academic positions in North American
universities as well as in Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong. She
also acted as a consultant, along with Ron Scollon, with over fifty
governmental and corporate organizations in North America, Asia, and Europe.
Rodney H. Jones is the Associate Head of the Department of
English at City University of Hong Kong. He has published widely in
international journals and is co-editor of Discourse in Action:
Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis (with S. Norris
2005), Advances in Discourse Studies (with V. K. Bhatia and
J. Flowerdew 2007), and author of Noticing, Exploring and
Practicing: Functional Grammar in the ESL Classroom (with G.
Lock 2010), and Discourse Analysis: A Resource Book for
Students (2012).
