Intercultural Communication: Teaching Vocabulary

TL;DR: The future of language in China is under threat, according to experts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the problem of Indian cultural appropriation in the U.S. legal system and evaluate these claims vis-a-vis prevailing legal doctrine and offer a normative view of solutions.

TL;DR: The authors describes the development of linguistic ethnography in Britain over the last 5-15 years, and the U.K. Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF) has emerged from socio-and applied linguistics, bringing together a number of formative traditions (inter alia, Interactional Sociolinguistics, New Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis).

TL;DR: In this article, a sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition (SLA) is described, which adopts a non-cognitivist view of cognition: instead of an isolated computational process in which input is extracted from the environment and used to build elaborate internal knowledge representations, cognition is seen as adaptive intelligence, enabling our close and sensitive alignment to our ecosocial environment to survive in it.

TL;DR: The authors found that Black drivers were more likely to experience extensive policing during a traffic stop, and the communication quality of White drivers was, on average, more positive than that of the Black drivers.

TL;DR: The authors argue that intercultural communication scholars should play a central role in advancing the study and practice of peacebuilding and propose a reflexive, multi-dimensional and contextualized framework for viewing peacebuilding with a focus on personal, relational, and structural dimensions.

TL;DR: This chapter offers an introduction to the phonetic study of speaker age, with focus on what is known about the acoustic features which vary with age.