Intercultural Europe Arenas of Difference, Communication and Mediation [Paperback]

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk is Professor Ordinarius and Chair of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Lodz, Poland, and Professor of English Linguistics at the Academy of International Studies in Lodz. Her research interests are primarily in semantics and pragmatics of natural language, corpus linguistics, and their applications in translation studies and lexicography. She has published a range of books and papers in these areas and lectured at universities in Europe, America, and Asia.Hanna Pulaczewska studied English and General Linguistics at the University of Lódz, Poland, and the University of Regensburg, Germany. She is Professor of English Linguistics at the Academy of International Studies in Lodz and holds courses at the University of Regensburg. Her publications and academic teachings focus on contrastive pragmatics and rhetoric, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics. She has also taught intercultural communication in business ventures.This volume makes an important intercultural and interdisciplinary contribution to intercultural communications in Europe. The publication links linguistic aspects with psychological, social, economic, political, and cultural issues and creates a wide perspective encompassing the European heterogeneity of languages, cultures, traditions, and developments.From the editors: About this book, by Hanna PuBaczewska / Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Some critical comments on intercultural communication issues in the European context, by Volker Hinnenkamp
Part I. Arenas of diversity and identity: Forms of discourse and representation
Stadt der vielen Kulturen – Stadt der 'Lodzermenschen': Komplexe lokale Identitaten bei den Bewohnern der Industriestadt Lodz 1820-1939/1945, by Frank M. Schuster
How much Europe?, by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk / Jerzy Tomaszczyk
The discursive interface of national, European and selƒf