Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication
A Critical Theory Approach
GBP
- Author(s): Yukio Tsuda
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date January 1986
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027279286
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/pb.vii.7
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.
Related Topics:
Discourse studies
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Pragmatics
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Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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