The past several decades have seen the re-invigoration of the concept of "intercultural competence" as one of the fundamental and most promising approaches towards studying culture in a respectfully complex way. The introduction of this concept, which has been defined and adapted in manifold ways in various disciplines, offers new ways of exploring the inherent multiplicity and versatility of cultural encounters and mutual understanding. This book brings together a stellar group of international researchers working in such diverse fields as business studies, religious studies, educational studies and communication studies. In critical pursuit of how to set intercultural competence to work in today's society, the contributors to this indispensible volume elucidate with passion and astuteness the challenges and potentials of interculturality and interreligiosity.
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Part I Sketching the Field of Intercultural Competence |
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Chapter Two Intercultural Competence in the 21st Century: Perspectives, Issues, Application |
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Part II Intercultural Competence: Research and Education |
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Chapter Three Tracking Cultural Vision: Eyetracking as a new Methodology in Intercultural Trainings |
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Chapter Four Discourse Theories and Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Awareness Raising through Authentic Materials |
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Chapter Five The Influence of Intercultural Training Programs on Implicit and Explicit Levels of Attitudes towards Foreigners |
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Part III Intercultural Competence in Understanding Religion |
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Chapter Six Interculturality and Interreligiosity: A Conceptual Clarification with Special Reference to Intercultural Competence |
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Chapter Seven Building Intercultural Competence in Understanding Religion through Cooperative Learning |
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Chapter Eight European Voluntary Service and Intercultural Competence in Understanding Islamic Culture |
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Chapter Nine The Construction of the "Third Country Other" in EU Integration Discourse |
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Part IV Language, Politics and Intercultural Communication |
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Chapter Ten Intercultural Encounters: Changing Values in a Changing World Thomas Herdin |
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Chapter Eleven Chinese Intercultural Communication in the Global Setting, as Reflected through Contemporary Key Words in the Chinese Multimedia |
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Part V Interculturality and Leadership in Business |
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Chapter Twelve Coping with Intercultural Challenges in Global Business: An Ethnographic View |
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Chapter Thirteen An Etic View of Crossvergence: Cases from Trans-National and Intra-National Contexts |
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Chapter Fourteen Intercultural Competence in Business Negotiation |
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Chapter Fifteen Software of the Mind at play in the Software Industry: Study of Interculturality and Leadership in the Software Industry in India |
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Birgit Breninger is a Senior Lecturer in the Communication Studies Department at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria, and Head of the postgraduate programmes in Intercultural Competence (ICC) and the Master's programme in Intercultural Studies (MIS), which she founded together with her colleague in 2005. Her special research interests include intercultural studies, culture and cognition, as well as conceptualising and measuring intercultural competence.Thomas Kaltenbacher is a Senior Scientist in Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Neurocognitive Research at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria. He studied applied linguistics with a focus on psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics in Salzburg and Oxford. His research interests include multimodal language processing, reading eye movements, dyslexia and language pathology research. He is the CEO of the postgraduate intercultural studies programmes (ICC and MIS) at the Paris-Lodron University, Salzburg, Austria.
