Interculturality and the Munchausen Effect: On the Need to Rethink the Speaking Subject and Community in Interaction

by Ashley Simpson

This book offers a conceptual intervention for Language and Intercultural Communication studies by advocating for a critical interdiscursive approach to research on interculturality.

The volume addresses two interrelated theses in research on interculturality; namely that the speaking subject in interaction reproduces the egocentrism and phonocentrism of the Munchausen Effect. In considering the first, the book traces the ways in which interculturality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032255226
• ISBN13: 9781032255224
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"