Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication
A Critical Theory Approach
This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages. It provides a four-step Critical Theory analysis of language-based inequality and distortion between speakers of a few dominant languages, especially English, and speakers of minority languages in the context of international and intercultural communication. Based on a theoretical framework of “Distorted Communication” developed by J. Habermas and C. Müller, the analysis focuses on a critical description, definition, and interpretation of “Distorted Intercultural Communication”, and exposes the ideology that legitimates linguistic inequality and distortion in communication.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:7] 1986. xi, 97 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
List of Tables
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List of Figures
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xi
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Introduction
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1
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1. Critical Theory Approach to Language Inequalities
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5
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1.1 Critical theory and scientific inquiries
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5
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1.2 A critique of the positivist approach
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7
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1.3 Critical theory
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11
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1.4 A critical theory approach to language inequalities
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14
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2 Language Inequality in Distorted Intercultural Communication
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15
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2.1 Distorted communication
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15
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2.2 Distorted intercultural communication
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20
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2.3 Summary
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56
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3. The Ideology of Civilization and Western Domination
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59
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3.1 The critique of ideology
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59
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3.2 The genesis of the ideology of “civilization”
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62
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3.3 Expansion of the Western “civilization”
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67
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3.4 Structural domination of the Western “civilization”
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75
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3.5 Summary
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87
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4. Conclusion
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89
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References
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91
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General