Overview
- Examines how professionals work within complex multilingual and multicultural contexts, and provides a focused account of the capabilities they develop as a result
- Analyses the demands placed on practitioners to be capable intercultural communicators who can make the most of affordances and manage the challenges posed by linguistic and cultural diversity in their work
- Explores the ways people use language to establish and manage professional-client relationships and relationships between colleagues across varied languages and cultures
Part of the book series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations (PSPOD)
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Book Title: The Intercultural Professional
Authors: Fiona O'Neill
Series Title: Communicating in Professions and Organizations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52531-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52530-9Published: 19 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52533-0Published: 19 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52531-6Published: 18 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-812X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8138
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 265
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Intercultural Communication, Communication Studies, Multilingualism, Cross-Cultural Management, Cross Cultural Psychology