Communicating Beyond Language - Everyday Encounters with Diversity - Grand Format

Communicating Beyond Language affirms the importance of communicative repertoires use to express who we are when in dialogue with others - with highly engaging discussions and contemporary examples from mass media, popular culture, and everyday life. Each chapter describes and illustrates the communicative resources humans deploy daily and how these resources combine in infinitely vaned perfomunces of identity.
The book also discusses how our repertoires shift and grow over the course of a lifetime, as well how a repertoire perspective can lead to a rethinking of cultural diversity and human interaction, thereby helping us to find common ground and communicate in increasingly multicultural schools, workplaces, markets, and social spheres. The result is a fresh and exciting work that will resonate with students and scholars in sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, applied linguistics, and education.