Overview

Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon in social life, sometimes with serious consequences for people's life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stakes events such as job interviews or in the legal system. In unequal power encounters, unsuccessful communication is regularly attributed to the less powerful participant, especially when those participants are members of an ethnic minority group. But even when communicative events are not prestructured by participants' differential positions in social hierarchies, misunderstandings occur at different levels of interactional and social engagement. Misunderstanding in Social Life examines such problematic talk in ordinary conversation and different institutional settings, including socializing events and story tellings, education and assessment activities, and interviews in TV news broadcasts, employment agencies, legal settings, and language testing. The analyzed interactions are located in a variety of sociocultural environments and conducted in a range of languages, including English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, such language varieties as Aboriginal Australian English and Maori New Zealand English, and nonnative varieties. The original studies included in this volume adopt a variety of theoretical perspectives, including discourse-pragmatic approaches, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, social constructionism, tropological and narrative analysis. They represent multiple views of misunderstanding as a multilayered discourse event.

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Author:   Juliane House ,  Gabriele Kasper ,  Steven Ross
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780582382220

ISBN 10:   058238222
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   22 January 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1. INTRODUCTION Juliane House, Gabriele Kasper, & Steven Ross 2. MISUNDERSTANDING IN INTERCULTURAL UNIVERSITY ENCOUNTERS Juliane House, Hamburg University, Germany 3. PARASITIC FORMS OF MISUNDERSTANDING Volker Hinnenkamp, Augsburg University, Germany 4. REPETITION AS A SOURCE OF MISCOMMUNICATION IN ORAL PROFICIENCY INTERVIEWS Steven Ross, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sande-Kobe, Japan & Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA 5. MISUNDERSTANDINGS IN POLITICAL INTERVIEWS Elda Weizman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel & Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 6. ""I COULDN'T FOLLOW HER STORY…"": GENDER AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN NEW ZEALAND NARRATIVES Janet Holmes, Victoria University, New Zealand 7. IDENTITY, ROLE, AND VOICE IN CROSS-CULTURAL (MIS)COMMUNICATION Claire Kramsch, University of California at Berkeley, USA 8. MISUNDERSTANDING TEACHING AND LEARNING Joan Turner, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK & Masako Hiraga, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan 9. THE POLITICS OF MISUNDERSTANDING IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM: ABORIGINAL ENGLISH SPEAKERS IN QUEENSLAND Diana Eades, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA 10. DISTRUST: A DETERMINING FACTOR IN THE OUTCOMES OF GATEKEEPING ENCOUNTERS Julie Kerekes, Stanford University, USA"

Reviews

'This book is an important contribution to discourse analytic research in misunderstanding.' Discourse & Society 16(1)

'...an excellent resource that anyone with an interest in this field will find invaluable since it covers a range of contexts, from personal to institutional, using different yet complementary strands of research such as pragmatics, conversation and discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis, as well as some more integrative models.' ...'suitable even for undergraduate students.' House, Kasper, Ross: Misunderstanding in Social Life: Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk 'This book is an important contribution to discourse analytic research in misunderstanding.' Discourse & Society 16(1)

'...an excellent resource that anyone with an interest in this field will find invaluable since it covers a range of contexts, from personal to institutional, using different yet complementary strands of research such as pragmatics, conversation and discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis, as well as some more integrative models.' ...'suitable even for undergraduate students.' House, Kasper, Ross: Misunderstanding in Social Life: Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk 'This book is an important contribution to discourse analytic research in misunderstanding.' Discourse & Society 16(1)

Author Information

Juliane House is the Professor of Linguistics, at the University of Hamburg.Gabriel Casper is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Haiwaii, Manoa.Steven Ross is Professor in the School of Policy Study, at the Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda/Kobe in Japan.

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