Title: Meanings in Madagascar : cases of intercultural communication /
Authors: Dahl, Øyvind, 1940-
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Intercultural communication Madagascar.; Intercultural communication.; Interpersonal communication.; Philosophy, Malagasy.; Madagascar Social life and customs.
Contents: 1. Mysteries of Meanings in Madagascar: "How Can I Ever Understand?" -- 2. Communication Conditioned by World View: "Where the Dead Ones Do Not Die" -- 3. Time Concepts and Communication: "When the Future Comes from Behind" -- 4. Under the Menace of Imperfection: "Always Guilty" -- 5. Vertical and Horizontal Social Structures: "Father and Mother, Sister and Brother" -- 6. Conflicts and Personal Relationships: The Art of "Living Together" -- 7. Malagasy Pragmatics: "Don't Show Your Molars to Strangers" -- 8. Decision Making and Attenuated Speech: "Lukewarm Common Opinion" -- 9. Interpretative Intercultural Communication: "The End Where Everything Begins"