Intercultural Communication

This textbook combines perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics to provide an up-to-date, critical introduction to intercultural communication.

Ingrid Piller explains communication in context through two main approaches: treating cultural identity, difference, and similarity as discursive constructions, and highlighting the role of multilingualism, language prestige, and access to languages in intercultural communication.

The third edition includes topics such as intercultural business, school, crisis communication, and intercultural romance, emphasizing the importance of critical intercultural skills in a globalized and interconnected world.