Juliane House, Gabriele Kasper, Steven Ross

Misunderstanding in Social Life (eBook, PDF)

Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon of social life, sometimes with serious consequences for peopleâEUR(TM)s life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stake events, for instance job interviews or in the legal system. In what is known as unequal power encounters, unsuccessful communication is regularly attributed to the less powerful participant, particularly when those participants are members of an ethnic minority group.

By adopting a range of different theoretical perspectives on misunderstandings, this book sheds light on the many causes and consequences of misunderstandings in language use. This volume examines such problematic talk, including socializing occasions and story telling, education and assessment activities, and interviews in TV news broadcasts, employment agencies, legal settings, and language testing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317877554
• Artikelnr.: 41785215

Autorenporträt

Juliane House is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Hamburg University.

Gabriele Kasper is Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of

Hawai'i, and Steven Ross is Professor at the School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe/Sanda, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. INTRODUCTION Juliane House
Gabriele Kasper
& Steven Ross 2. MISUNDERSTANDING IN INTERCULTURAL UNIVERSITY ENCOUNTERS Juliane House
Hamburg University
Germany 3. PARASITIC FORMS OF MISUNDERSTANDING Volker Hinnenkamp
Augsburg University
Germany 4. REPETITION AS A SOURCE OF MISCOMMUNICATION IN ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEWS Steven Ross
Kwansei Gakuin University
Sande-Kobe
Japan & Gabriele Kasper
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
USA 5. MISUNDERSTANDINGS IN POLITICAL INTERVIEWS Elda Weizman
Bar-Ilan University
Israel & Shoshana Blum-Kulka
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel 6. "I COULDN'T FOLLOW HER STORY...": GENDER AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN NEW ZEALAND NARRATIVES Janet Holmes
Victoria University
New Zealand 7. IDENTITY
ROLE
AND VOICE IN CROSS-CULTURAL (MIS)COMMUNICATION Claire Kramsch
University of California at Berkeley
USA 8. MISUNDERSTANDING TEACHING AND LEARNING Joan Turner
Goldsmiths College
University of London
UK & Masako Hiraga
Rikkyo University
Tokyo
Japan 9. THE POLITICS OF MISUNDERSTANDING IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM: ABORIGINAL ENGLISH SPEAKERS IN QUEENSLAND Diana Eades
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
USA 10. DISTRUST: A DETERMINING FACTOR IN THE OUTCOMES OF GATEKEEPING ENCOUNTERS Julie Kerekes
Stanford University
USA