A global agenda for intercultural communication research and practice

TL;DR: In this article, three university students studying abroad employ a combination of two modes of thinking and talking about cultural difference within a non-essentialist paradigm, while acknowledging diversity, reinforcing the notion of uncrossable cultural boundaries.

TL;DR: The authors argue for a stronger link between language and intercultural communication research, theory development, and social/political action, and argue that language can be used in theory development and social and political action.

TL;DR: The authors depart from a conceptualisation of foreign language teaching as intercultural citizenship in schools and universities, and suggest that foreign languages teaching can be viewed as a form of intercultural education.

TL;DR: This article conducted interviews with a small group of doctoral students at a British university and found that the students feel that the program provides an environment within which they develop interculturality through reflexive engagement with the PhD community and in some cases with the participants in their research.

TL;DR: In this article, Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion -imageability -and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities.

TL;DR: Most often, the homogenization argument subspeciates into either an argument about Americanization, or anargument about "commoditization", and very often the two arguments are closely linked as discussed by the authors. But these arguments fail to consider that at least as rapidly as forces from various metropolises are brought into new societies they tend to become indigenized in one or other way.

Abstract: This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyses previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by outlining a theory of 'cultural materialism' which integrates Marxist theories of language with Marxist theories of literature. Williams moves from a review of the growth of the concepts of literature and idealogy to a redefinition of 'determinism' and 'hegemony'. His incisive discussion of the 'social material process' of cultural activity culminates in a re-examination of the problems of alignment and commitment and of the creative practice in individual authors and wider social groups.

TL;DR: In fact, it might not appear that the consideration of so-called "creative literature" has very much importance for Marxism as mentioned in this paper, but it has always had a great deal to say about literature and to its practitioners.