List of Figures
General Editors" Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
1.1 Aim and readership of the book
1.2 Title of the book
1.3 Authors subjectivity
1.4 Overview of the book
Part 1 Conceptualizing Intercultural Interaction
2 Unpacking Culture
2.1 Defining culture
2.2 Etic frameworks for comparing cultures:multtdtsciplinary perspectives
2.2.1 Frameworks in psychology
2.2.2 Frameworks in anthropology
2.. Frameworks in international business
2.2.4 Frameworks in applied linguistics and discourse studies
. Emic perspectives on culture
2.4 Culture and regularity
2.4.1 Types of cultural regularity
2.4.2 Culture, regularity and variability
2.5 Culture and so groups
2.S.1 Culture and religious groups
2.5.2 Culture and organizations
2.S.3 Culture and professional groups
2.5.4 Culture and communities of practice
2.5.5 Culture an mt-group membership
2.6 Culture and representation
2.7 Concluding comments
Suggestions for further reading
3 Intercultural Interaction Comece (ICIC)
3.1 Introduction: terminology and definitions
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Part2 Promoting Comece in Intercultural Interaction
Part3 Researching Intercultural Interaction
Part4 Resources
References
Index