Intercultural Discourse and Communication
Subtitle: The Essential Readings (Linguistics (Malden Mass.).)
Contributors: Scott F. Kiesling (Editor); Christina Bratt Paulston (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: September 1, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780631235446
First sentence: While studies which compare cultures have been undertaken informally for as long as there have been travelers, it is not until the 1960s that systematic ways of undertaking comparisons of language use, with a view to understanding how language and culture works more generally, appear.