Description:
Why do people from different cultural backgrounds often misunderstand each other even when they use a common language to interact? Why do arguments that we find reasonable not seem so to members of other cultural groups? 'Global Linguistics: An Introduction' addresses these and other basic questions about language and discourse in intercultural communication, providing a solid...
Description:
Why do people from different cultural backgrounds often misunderstand each other even when they use a common language to interact? Why do arguments that we find reasonable not seem so to members of other cultural groups? 'Global Linguistics: An Introduction' addresses these and other basic questions about language and discourse in intercultural communication, providing a solid and accessible introduction to 'global linguistics': an interdisciplinary field combining insights from contact linguistics, pragmatics, conceptual metaphor theory and argumentation theory.