Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication : A Critical Theory Approach.

By: Tsuda, YukioMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Pragmatics & BeyondPublisher: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1986Copyright date: ©1986Description: 1 online resource (109 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789027279286Subject(s): Civilization, Western | Intercultural communication | SociolinguisticsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication : A Critical Theory ApproachDDC classification: 401/.9 LOC classification: P40 -- .T83 1986ebOnline resources: Click to View
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LANGUAGE INEQUALITY AND DISTORTION IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION A CRITICAL THEORY APPROACH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Table of contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CRITICAL THEORY APPROACH TO LANGUAGE INEQUALITIES -- 1.1. Critical theory and scientific inquiries -- 1.2. A critique of the positivist approach -- 1.3. Critical theory -- 1.3.1. Beginnings and developments -- 1.3.2. Critical theory: Assumpiions and goals -- 1.4. A critical theory approach to language inequalities -- 2. LANGUAGE INEQUALITY IN DISTORTED INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION -- 2.1. Distorted communication -- 2.1.1. Habermas and distorted communication -- 2.1.2. Mueller and distorted communication -- 2.2. Distorted intercultural communication -- 2.2.1. Directed intercultural communication -- 2.2.1.1. Somali and colonial languages: Critical description -- 2.2.1.3. Nation-building and directed intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation -- 2.2.2. Arrested intercultural communication -- 2.2.2.1. Gastarbeiter in West Germany: Critical Description -- 2.2.2.2. Psychology of bilinguals in arrested intercultural communication: Critical definition -- 2.2.2.3. Distortions in arrested intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation -- 2.2.3. Constrainedintercultural communication -- 2.2.3.1. The spread of English as an international language: Its merits -- 2.2.3.2. Constrained intercultural communicaiion: Critical description and definition. -- 2.2.3.3. Constrained intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation -- 2.3. Summary -- 3. THE IDEOLOGY OF CIVILIZATION AND WESTERN DOMINATION -- 3.1. The critique of ideology -- 3.2. The genesis of the ideology of "civilization -- 3.3. Expansion of the Western "civilization -- 3.4. Structural domination of the Western "civilization.
3.4.1. Material control -- 3.4.2. Informational control -- 3.4.3. Ideological control -- 3.5. Summary -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.
Summary: 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.
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LANGUAGE INEQUALITY AND DISTORTION IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION A CRITICAL THEORY APPROACH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Table of contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CRITICAL THEORY APPROACH TO LANGUAGE INEQUALITIES -- 1.1. Critical theory and scientific inquiries -- 1.2. A critique of the positivist approach -- 1.3. Critical theory -- 1.3.1. Beginnings and developments -- 1.3.2. Critical theory: Assumpiions and goals -- 1.4. A critical theory approach to language inequalities -- 2. LANGUAGE INEQUALITY IN DISTORTED INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION -- 2.1. Distorted communication -- 2.1.1. Habermas and distorted communication -- 2.1.2. Mueller and distorted communication -- 2.2. Distorted intercultural communication -- 2.2.1. Directed intercultural communication -- 2.2.1.1. Somali and colonial languages: Critical description -- 2.2.1.3. Nation-building and directed intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation -- 2.2.2. Arrested intercultural communication -- 2.2.2.1. Gastarbeiter in West Germany: Critical Description -- 2.2.2.2. Psychology of bilinguals in arrested intercultural communication: Critical definition -- 2.2.2.3. Distortions in arrested intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation -- 2.2.3. Constrainedintercultural communication -- 2.2.3.1. The spread of English as an international language: Its merits -- 2.2.3.2. Constrained intercultural communicaiion: Critical description and definition. -- 2.2.3.3. Constrained intercultural communicaiion: Critical interpretation -- 2.3. Summary -- 3. THE IDEOLOGY OF CIVILIZATION AND WESTERN DOMINATION -- 3.1. The critique of ideology -- 3.2. The genesis of the ideology of "civilization -- 3.3. Expansion of the Western "civilization -- 3.4. Structural domination of the Western "civilization.

3.4.1. Material control -- 3.4.2. Informational control -- 3.4.3. Ideological control -- 3.5. Summary -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

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.

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