Dialogue And Culture

Author : Marion Grein,Edda Weigand
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027210187

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Dialogue and Culture by Marion Grein,Edda Weigand Pdf

The volume deals with the relationship between language, dialogue, human nature and culture by focusing on an approach that considers culture to be a crucial component of dialogic interaction. Part I refers to the so-called 'language instinct debate' between nativists and empiricists and introduces a mediating position that regards language and dialogue as determined by both human nature and culture. This sets the framework for the contributions of Part II which propose varying theoretical positions on how to address the ways in which culture influences dialogue. Part III presents more empirically oriented studies which demonstrate the interaction of components in the 'mixed game' and focus, in particular, on specific action games, politeness and selected verbal means of communication.

Author : Andrew J. Strathern,Pamela J. Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000184648

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Language and Culture in Dialogue by Andrew J. Strathern,Pamela J. Stewart Pdf

In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between “language in particular” and “culture in general” by focusing on language as both social practice and a means of classifying and interpreting the world. A traditional linguistic approach to a focus on language is illuminated by their anthropological emphasis on the embodiment of relationships and experience. In the book, the body is placed in the foreground for understanding language in culture, which helps in turn to understand how it enables us to adapt to the world of lived material experience. Written in an accessible style and drawing on an extensive corpus of primary field research from Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Japan, Taiwan, Scotland, and Ireland, Strathern and Stewart present a world anthropology which links together European, North American, and Asia-Pacific approaches to the topic. Students and scholars alike of sociocultual anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and linguistics will benefit from this engaging work on how the various components of our culture are informed and shaped through language.

Author : Patrick De Mare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429915468

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Koinonia by Patrick De Mare Pdf

A study of the larger group, focusing on the processes and dynamics whereby the group micro-culture emerges. As the initial frustrations of the group find expression in hate, this is transformed through dialogue to what the Greeks knew as 'koinonia', or the state of impersonal fellowship. Essentially, Koinonia concerns itself with an operational approach to dialogue, culture and the human mind through the medium of a larger group context, and adopts a direction similar in many ways to the group-analytic method of S.H. Foulkes. In attempting to link the most intimate aspect of individual beings naturally and spontaneously in the socio-cultural setting of the larger group, by the very nature of its size, offers a structure or medium for linking inner world with cultural context, and is thus able to establish a unique dimension-that of the micro-culture.

Author : Seton Hall University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1465212760

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Christianity and Culture in Dialogue by Seton Hall University Pdf

Author : Fred Dallmayr
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443873512

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Intercultural Dialogue by Fred Dallmayr Pdf

Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony in Diversity offers a philosophical analysis of the issues surrounding cultural diversity and dialogical relationships among cultures as an alternative to “culture wars” and hegemonic globalization. It examines the ideas of dialogue and harmony as expressed in Daoism, Confucianism, Indian, and Ancient Greek philosophical traditions, as well as in contemporary European and Latin-American philosophies. Drawing on the works of Laozi, Confucius, Plato, Kant, and Gandhi, the book shows the importance of intercultural dialogue and the globalization of philosophy. It asserts that intercultural dialogue should have inter-philosophical global dialogue as its epistemological and ontological foundation. Intercultural philosophy elaborates on the conceptualization of philosophy as culturally embedded. Attention is paid to Bakhtin’s dialogism and its contemporary elaboration in the phenomenology of indirect speech, synergic anthropology, and the theory of transculture. The book offers a critical analysis of world problems. Their possible solutions require a more dialogically-oriented and humane transformation of society, aiming for a cosmopolitan order of law and peace.

Author : Madhu Bhalla
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000329476

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Culture as Power by Madhu Bhalla Pdf

This book presents new studies on intellectual and cultural interactions in the context of Buddhist heritage and Indo-Japanese dialogue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on art, religion, and cultural politics. By revisiting Buddhist connections between India and Japan, it examines the pathways of communication on common aesthetic and religious heritage that emerged in the backdrop of colonial experiences and the rise of Asian nationalisms. The volume discusses themes such as Asian arts and crafts under colonialism, formation of East Asian art collections, development of Buddhist art history in Japan, Japanese encounters with Ajanta, India in the history of the Shinto tradition, Japan in India’s xenology, and Buddhism and world peace, and suggests paradigms of reconnecting cultural heritage within a global platform. With essays from experts across the world, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of history, art history, ancient Indian history, colonial history, heritage and cultural studies, South Asian and East Asian history, visual and media studies, Asian studies, international relations and foreign policy, and the history of globalization.

Author : Janis Talivaldis Ozolinš
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319257242

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Religion and Culture in Dialogue by Janis Talivaldis Ozolinš Pdf

This volume addresses the issue of the human encounter with the Mystery of God and the purpose of human life. It explores major themes from diverse cultural and philosophical traditions, starting with questions about the possibility of belief in God, His transcendence as seen in both East and West, and ending with questions about ethics and about personhood, human dignity and human rights. Taking an eclectic approach, the chapters in this book each uniquely address aspects of the human encounter with the Mystery of God, drawing from specific cultures and traditions, and using a particular philosophical and theological style. Together, the chapters provide a fresh approach and a synergy that ensures that each topic contributes something new to the dialogue between religion and culture.

Author : Dilek Direnç,Günseli Sönmez İşçi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443807005

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Women in Dialogue by Dilek Direnç,Günseli Sönmez İşçi Pdf

Women in Dialogue: (M)Uses of Culture results from an international symposium held at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, in 2006, which brought together scholars from over ten countries, and from multiple academic backgrounds, who share professional interest in women’s studies, and, to no less degree, in current women’s realities. The book presents a collection of essays united by a common focus on the position of women as objects of cultural production in different geographic, national, and political contexts, as well as the character and typology of women’s contribution to cultural activity across the ethnic or religious divide marking the face of contemporary world. The volume comprises two sections: the first, titled “Women in Dialogue,” contains contributions which analyze literary representations of women from a variety of perspectives, and from diverse spatial and temporal locations. The second part, titled “(M)Uses of Culture,” includes personalized observations by several women writers, of both poetry and fiction, their commentaries on their own work as artists, and their deeply experienced “musings” on the position of women as artists in the world of today. The essays that this volume brings together are varied in subject matter; yet they are connected by the common theme, epitomized in the metaphor of dialogue, as a platform for active, productive communication, leading – on the pages of the book, if not elsewhere – to learning, and mutual understanding.

Author : Susana Gonçalves,Suzanne Majhanovich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463004237

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Art and Intercultural Dialogue by Susana Gonçalves,Suzanne Majhanovich Pdf

How can art act as an intercultural mediator for dialogue? In order to scrutinize this question, relevant theoretical ideas are discussed and artistic intervention projects examined so as to highlight its cultural, political, economic, social, and transformational impacts. This thought-provoking work reveals why art is needed to help multicultural neighbourhoods and societies be sustainable, as well as united by diversity. This edited collection underlines the significance of arts and media as a tool of understanding, mediation, and communication across and beyond cultures. The chapters with a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches from particular contexts demonstrate the complexity in the dynamics of (inter)cultural communication, culture, identity, arts, and media. Overall, the collection encourages readers to consider themselves as agents of the communication process promoting dialogue.

Author : Michael H. Prosser
Publisher : International Society for Intercultural Education, Training & Research
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : 0933934122

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The Cultural Dialogue by Michael H. Prosser Pdf

Author : Tuuli Lähdesmäki,Aino-Kaisa Koistinen,Susanne C. Ylönen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Comparative education
ISBN : 9783030415174

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Intercultural Dialogue in the European Education Policies by Tuuli Lähdesmäki,Aino-Kaisa Koistinen,Susanne C. Ylönen Pdf

This open access book analyses intercultural dialogue as a concept, policy and ideal in European education policy documentation. The core European transnational organizatons - the Council of Europe and the European Union - have actively promoted policies to engender inclusive societies and respond to challenges that diversification may entail. This book, in turn, offers suggestions for improving education policies in super-diversified Europe and beyond, where there is an increasing need for cultural understanding and constructive dialogue. The authors utilize concept analysis to reveal how these organizations seek to deal with dialogue between cultures, as well as weight given to cultural differences and intercultural encounters. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of intercultural dialogue and European education policies. .

Author : Deardorff, Darla K.
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Cultural competence
ISBN : 9789231003318

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Manual for developing intercultural competencies by Deardorff, Darla K. Pdf

"This book presents a structured yet flexible methodology for developing intercultural competence in a variety of contexts, both formal and informal. Piloted around the world by UNESCO, this methodology has proven to be effective in a range of different contexts and focused on a variety of different issues. It therefore can be considered an important resource for anyone concerned with effectively managing the growing cultural diversity within our societies to ensure inclusive and sustainable development. Intercultural competence refers to the skills, attitudes and behaviours needed to improve interactions across difference, whether within a society (differences due to age, gender, religion, socio-economic status, political affiliation, ethnicity, and so on) or across borders. The book serves as a tool to develop those competences, presenting an innovative adaptation of what could be considered an ancient tradition of storytelling found in many cultures. Through engaging in the methodology, participants develop key elements of intercultural competence including greater self-awareness, openness, respect, reflexivity, empathy, increased awareness of others, and in the end, greater cultural humility. This book will be of great interest to intercultural trainers, policymakers, development practitioners, educators, community organizers, civil society leaders, university lecturers and students -- all who are interested in developing intercultural competence as a means to understand and appreciate difference, develop relationships with those across difference, engage in intercultural dialogue and bridge societal divides"--

Author : George Spindler,Louise Spindler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136615535

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The American Cultural Dialogue And Its Transmission by George Spindler,Louise Spindler Pdf

Combines data obtained by a values projective technique over a period of more than 30 years. The purpose of the book is to deal with a process in which all Americans, old and new, and of all ethnic groups and minorities, are caught up - the American cultural dialogue.

Author : Unesco
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789231040771

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Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue by Unesco Pdf

This report analyses all aspects of cultural diversity, which has emerged as a key concern of the international community in recent decades, and maps out new approaches to monitoring and shaping the changes that are taking place. It highlights, in particular, the interrelated challenges of cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue and the way in which strong homogenizing forces are matched by persistent diversifying trends. The report proposes a series of ten policy-oriented recommendations, to the attention of States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, international and regional bodies, national institutions and the private sector on how to invest in cultural diversity. Emphasizing the importance of cultural diversity in different areas (languages, education, communication and new media development, and creativity and the marketplace) based on data and examples collected from around the world, the report is also intended for the general public. It proposes a coherent vision of cultural diversity and clarifies how, far from being a threat, it can become beneficial to the action of the international community.

Author : M. Michael
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230621602

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Civilizational Dialogue and World Order by M. Michael Pdf

The book comes at a very critical moment in the debate on civilization and responds to the lack of scholarly attention by international relations and political theorists as to how the discourse of dialogue of cultures, religions, and civilizations can contribute to the future of world order.