Language, Communication, and Intergroup Relations presents the current state of knowledge at the intersection of language, communication, and intergroup relations, drawing on interdisciplinary work from the fields of communication, social psychology, and sociolinguistics. Building from that existing work, it presents a series of provocative and innovative new directions in this area.
The work is organized around a series of five themes:
• Language and Culture
• Intergroup Communication
• Intergenerational Relations
• Interpersonal Accommodation
• Institutional Accommodation.
Within each theme, prominent scholars present reviews of the literature, which are followed by responses, reactions, and extensions from a multidisciplinary group of researchers. These responses often move beyond typical academic prose and engage with the material in novel ways, including graphical theoretical models, short personal reflections, and creative prose. It is essential reading for students and academics in the interdisciplinary fields of communication, language, and social psychology.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1
Accommodating a Legend: Howard Giles and the Social Psychology of Language and Communication
Jake Harwood, Jon F. NussBaum, Herbert Pierson, Cindy Gallois, and Jessica Gasiorek
Part II: Language and Culture
Chapter 2
Language and Culture: Part II Introduction
Herbert Pierson
Chapter 3
Language and Culture
Kimberly A. Noels, Richard Clément, Katherine Collins, and Peter MacIntyre
Chapter 4
Culture Is Essentially Meaning
Danjie Su
Chapter 5
Social Media, Culture and Identity Construction: From Mass Communication to Communication of the Masses
Martin Ehala
Chapter 6
Communicating New Racial Dynamics
Li Wei
Chapter 7
Howard Giles’s Identity in Everyday Life
Florian Coulmas
Chapter 8
Howard Giles and Accommodation to My Scouse Accent
Janet Holmes
Chapter 9
Howard Giles: Master Elucidator of Language in Social Relationships
John Edwards
Chapter 10
A Debt to Howard Giles’ Work on Language, Culture, and Communication
Min-Sun Kim
Chapter 11
Epiphany Redux: Howard Giles’ Legacy to Language and Culture
Mary Jiang Bresnahan
Chapter 12
Howard Giles: Communication’s Communicator
Robert Gardner
Chapter 13
Power, Culture, and Ethnolinguistic Relations in a South African Context
Joha Louw-Potgieter
Chapter 14
What Would Mikhail Bakhtin Say About Mutual Understanding and Self-Construals? Culture Is Essentially Meaning
Eungjun Min
Part III: Intergroup Communication
Chapter 15
Intergroup Communication: Part III Introduction
Jake Harwood
Chapter 16
Communicating Between Groups, Communicating About Groups
Tamara Rakić and Anne Maass
Chapter 17
The Intersectionality of Intergroup Communication
Jessica R. Abrams
Chapter 18
An Imaginary Conversation Between the Ghost of Henri Tajfel (HT) and Howard Giles (HG)
Rupert Brown
Chapter 19
Language Evaluation: In Defense of the Status Quo
Aaron Castelán Cargile
Chapter 20
Howie Giles, an Appreciation: Teacher, Scholar, Mentor, Friend
Miles Hewstone
Chapter 21
Categorization, Language, and Intergroup Communication
Hiroshi Ota
Chapter 22
The Father of Intergroup Communication: Ingroup/Outgroup Situations in an Online Parenting Community
Susan Fox
Chapter 23
Communicating Between the Lines, Communicating About the Lines: How a Request to Honor Howie Giles Backfired and Made Me a Published Poet
Nicholas A. Palomares
Chapter 24
Howie’s First Graduate Student: A Few Research Tales
Richard Y. Bourhis
Part IV: Intergenerational Relations
Chapter 25
Intergenerational Relations: Part IV Introduction
Jon F. NussBaum
Chapter 26
Intergenerational Communication
Mary Lee Hummert
Chapter 27
Communication Predicaments in Aging and Communication Enhancement Strategies
Ellen Bouchard Ryan
Chapter 28
Intergenerational Harmonies and Tensions
Yan Bing Zhang
Chapter 29
It Is in Howie Giles’ Work That I Found My Intellectual Home
Mei-Chen Lin
Chapter 30
Ecologies of Aging
Craig Fowler
Chapter 31
Howie Giles, Dragons, and the Intergenerational Making of Legends
Margaret Jane Pitts
Chapter 32
As I Push Off the Dock, Howie Sails Into the Sunset
Amber K. Worthington
Chapter 33
"Do You Want to Be Categorized as One of the Over Fifty-Fives?": Intergenerational Relations in a Public Context
Virpi Ylänne
Chapter 34
Howie Pays It Forward
Jon F. NussBaum
Part V: Interpersonal Accommodation
Chapter 35
Interpersonal Accommodation: Part V Introduction
Jessica Gasiorek
Chapter 36
Interpersonal Accommodation
Yan Bing Zhang and Margaret Jane Pitts
Chapter 37
Interpersonal Accommodation and Multiple Goal Frameworks
Steven R. Wilson
Chapter 38
Accommodating to Develop and Maintain Relationships
René M. Dailey
Chapter 39
Sexual (Non)Accommodation Between Midlife and Younger Gay Men and Its Implications for Social Identity
Christopher Hajek
Chapter 40
...What About Communication Accommodation Between Genders?
Mª Àngels Viladot
Chapter 41
Further Consideration of Communication Accommodation Theory
Mei-Chen Lin
Chapter 42
Future Directions for Communication Accommodation Theory: Considering the Biological Correlates of Accommodative Behavior in Interpersonal Contexts
Amanda Denes and Anuraj Dhillon
Chapter 43
Beyond Dyads: Accommodative Dilemmas in Small Group Interactions
Marko Dragojevic
Chapter 44
Iechyd Da
Robert M. McCann
Part VI: Institutional Accommodation
Chapter 45
Institutional Accommodation: Part VI Introduction
Cindy Gallois
Chapter 46
Communication Accommodation Theory in Institutional Settings: Opportunities for Applied Research
Bernadette M. Watson and Jordan Soliz
Chapter 47
The Development and Implementation of Cross-Cultural Assessments of Perceptions of Police Accommodation
Christopher Hajek
Chapter 48
Some Thoughts on CAT in Institutional Settings: Race and Criminal Justice
George B. Ray
Chapter 49
For a Sequential Accommodation
Augusto Gnisci
Chapter 50
Institutional Talk: Extending Our Understanding of Intergroup Communication in Institutional Settings
Liz Jones
Chapter 51
Communication Accommodation Theory: Considering a Dialectical Perspective on Police-Civilian Interactions
Charles W. Choi
Part VII: Conclusions
Chapter 52
Advancing Theory in Language, Communication, and Intergroup Relations
Jessica Gasiorek, Cindy Gallois, Herbert Pierson, Jon F. NussBaum, and Jake Harwood
Chapter 53
Epilogue: Resurrecting While California Dreaming—Re-Releasing Frameworks and Creating a New One
Howard Giles
About the Author :
Jake Harwood (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is Professor of Communication at the University of Arizona and former director of Gerontology at the same institution.
Jessica Gasiorek (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communicology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Herbert Pierson (Ed.D., SUNY-Albany) is Professor in the Department of Languages & Literatures at St. John’s University in New York and founding Co-Editor (with Howard Giles) of the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication.
Jon F. NussBaum (Ph.D., Purdue University) is Liberal Arts Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, as well as Human Development and Family Studies, at the Pennsylvania State University.
Cindy Gallois (Ph.D., University of Florida) is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Communication at the University of Queensland.
