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Publication details [#41870]
Hinnenkamp, Volker. 1996. Intercultural communication. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Jef Verschueren, Jan Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics.1995 Installment. John Benjamins.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
Intercultural communication, or the confrontation of one language-culture link with another, has become quite a popular field recently. It was not until the 1960s, with Dell Hymes’ seminal works on the ethnography of speaking, that linguistics was provided with a systematic methodology that could account for the interdependence of language, speech, communication and culture. In addition to linguistic pragmatics, contributing disciplines include communication science, sociology, psychology, and anthropology.