The informative and wide-ranging essays in this second volume of Borgo Perspectives on Intercultural Communication, by authors from Britain, Bulgaria, Germany, India, Russia and Spain, look at intercultural communication in action—whether in television or the movies, in the press, on the internet, in student life, in school, in the work of translators and interpreters, or simply in the attempt to communicate with "the Other." The seventeen pieces include:
FRANCIS JARMAN: Intercultural Communication
ARIT BREEDE: Studying Abroad to Encounter the Other?
VASCO DA SILVA: Qualitative Approaches to Students' Intercultural Experience
BERENIKE KUSCHEL, ELKE BOSSE & IOULIA GRIGORIEVA: Go.Intercultural!
HELENA DRAWERT: Biographical Research
JOACHIM GRIESBAUM: Using Social Information and Communication Tools to Foster Intercultural Exchange and Learning
THOMAS MANDL: Encountering Others Online
MARIA MÖSTL, CHRISTA WOMSER-HACKER & JOACHIM GRIESBAUM: Self-Expression in Online Networks
FRANCIS JARMAN: The Hildesheim Intercultural Film Database
ANNE-KRISTIN LANGNER: Casting Shows and Culture
MANJU RAMANAN: Growing "Other"wise
DETELINA METZ & MADELEINE DANOVA: Encountering the Other
HANSJÖRG BITTNER: Words and Phrases
JESÚS BAIGORRI JALÓN & CONCEPCIÓN OTERO MORENO: Understanding the Other
FRANCIS JARMAN: Put the Signs Up, Take the Signs Down
EKATERINA SOFRONIEVA: In Quest of the Language Bridge
KLAUS SCHUBERT: Reducing Otherness.
Francis Jarman has authored nine books for Borgo Press, including plays, a science fiction novel, a collection of essays, and three anthologies of essays by other writers. He lives and works in Germany.
