Language and Intercultural Communication in the New Era

Farzad Sharifian is Professor and Director of the Language and Society Centre at Monash University, Australia. Maryam Jamarani is Associate Lecturer at University of Queensland, Australia, and a research fellow at Monash University, Australia.

• 1. Language and Intercultural Communication: From the old era to the new one Farzad Sharifian and Maryam Jamarani Part 1: Theoretical Advancements 2. History and memory in the development of intercultural competence Claire Kramsch 3. Intercultures, encyclopaedic knowledge, and cultural models Istvan Kecskes 4. Cultural Linguistics and Intercultural Communication Farzad Sharifian Part 2: New Technologies and Intercultural Communication 5. International sociodigital interaction: what politics of interculturality? Fred Dervin 6. Shaping Intercultural Competence? Creating a Virtual Space for the Development of Intercultural Communicative Competence Wendy Anderson and John Corbett 7. Nonverbal Behaviors and Cross-Cultural Communication in the New Era Hyisung Hwang and David Matsumoto 8. "Digital Natives" and "Native Speakers": Competence in Computer Mediated Communication Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou 9. Facework in intercultural e-mail communication in the academic environment Magda Stroińska and Vikki Cecchetto 10. Expert-novice orientations: Native speaker power and the didactic voice in online intercultural interaction Anthony J Liddicoat and Vincenza Tudini 11. Anglophones, Francophones, Telephones: The case of a disputed Wikipedia entry Peter Cowley and Barbara E. Hanna Part 3: Intercultural Communication in Context 12. Local languages and communication challenges in the multinational workplace Jo Angouri and Marlene Miglbauer 13. "I don't know how to speak, so I just stay silent": Uncertainty management among Chinese immigrant women seeking healthcare in the United States Mikaela L. Marlow and Howard Giles 14. The Multilingual Teacher and the Multicultural Curriculum: An Asian example for Intercultural Communication in the New Era Andy Kirkpatrick, John Patkin, and Wu Jingjing 15. Native or intercultural speakers? An examination of dyadic conversations between Spanish - and English- speaking tandem learners Jane Woodinbetween Spanish - and English- speaking tandem learners Jane Woodin

'Sharifian and Jamarani have assembled a stellar group of scholars writing on the cutting edge of research that synthesizes the combined forces of language, culture, identity, and social media.' – R.S. Zaharna, American University, USA'Sharifian and Jamarani succeed in presenting a snapshot of current research, and in doing so, reflect the complexity surrounding the issue of intercultural communication, both its scholarly tradition and modern interpretations..While the volume is clearly of interest to academics and students of linguistics or language pedagogy, it is written with accessible clarity that would also allow non- experts in the field to draw a deeper understanding of the main issues.' - Gail AlHafidh, Higher Colleges of Technology