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Author : Lothar Bredella
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823343561
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Mediating a Foreign Culture written by Lothar Bredella and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1991 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David W. Augsburger
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664256098
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Conflict Mediation Across Cultures written by David W. Augsburger and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believing not only that conflict is inevitable in human life but that it is essential and can be quite constructive, Augsburger proposes a shift to an "international" approach in resolving conflict. Augsburger focuses on interpersonal and group conflicts and provides a comparison of conflict patterns within and among various cultures.
Author : Dieter Buttjes
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853590702
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Mediating Languages and Cultures written by Dieter Buttjes and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1991 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a foreign language is both necessary and desirable. Languages and cultures are interlinked and interdependent and their teaching and learning should be too. Learning another language is part of a complex process of learning and understanding other people's ways of life, ways of thinking and socio-economic experience
Author : Reine Meylaerts
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462701121
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Cultural Mediation in Europe, 1800-1950 written by Reine Meylaerts and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International exchange in European cultural life in the 19th and 20th centuries From the early nineteenth century till the middle of the twentieth century, cultures in Europe were primarily national. They were organized and conceived of as attributes of the nation states. Nonetheless, these national cultures crossed borders with an unprecedented intensity even before globalization transformed the very concept of culture. During that long period, European cultures have imported and exported products, techniques, values, and ideas, relying on invisible but efficient international networks. The central agents of these networks are considered mediators: translators, publishers, critics, artists, art dealers and collectors, composers. These agents were not only the true architects of intercultural transfer, they also largely contributed to the shaping of a common canon and of aesthetic values that became part of the history of national cultures. Cultural Mediation in Europe, 1800-1950 analyses the strategic transfer roles of cultural mediators active in large parts of Western Europe in domains as varied as literature, music, visual arts, and design. Contributors Amélie Auzoux (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne), Christophe Charle (Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne), Kate Kangaslahti (KU Leuven), Vesa Kurkela (University of the Arts, Helsinki), Anne O’Connor (University of Galway), Saijaleena Rantanen (University of the Arts, Helsinki), Ágnes Anna Sebestyén (Hungarian Museum of Architecture, Budapest), Inmaculada Serón Ordóñez (University of Málaga), Renske Suijver (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam), Tom Toremans (KU Leuven), Dirk Weissmann (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès)
Author : Stephen Bochner
Publisher : Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall ; Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Mediating Person written by Stephen Bochner and published by Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall ; Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Publishing Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Hindman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804788553
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Mediating the Global written by Heather Hindman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational business people, international aid workers, and diplomats are all actors on the international stage working for organizations and groups often scrutinized by the public eye. But the very lives of these global middlemen and women are relatively unstudied. Mediating the Global takes up the challenge, uncovering the day-to-day experiences of elite foreign workers and their families living in Nepal, and the policies and practices that determine their daily lives. In this book, Heather Hindman calls for a consideration of the complex role that global middlemen and women play, not merely in implementing policies, but as objects of policy. Examining the lives of expatriate professionals working in Kathmandu, Nepal and the families that accompany them, Hindman unveils intimate stories of the everyday life of global mediators. Mediating the Global focuses on expatriate employees and families who are affiliated with international development bodies, multinational corporations, and the foreign service of various countries. The author investigates the life of expatriates while they visit recreational clubs and international schools and also examines how the practices of international human resources management, cross-cultural communication, and promotion of flexible careers are transforming the world of elite overseas workers.
Author : Can-Seng Ooi
Publisher : Copenhagen Business School Press DK
ISBN 13 : 9788763000918
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures written by Can-Seng Ooi and published by Copenhagen Business School Press DK. This book was released on 2002 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of cultural tourism. It examines cultural mediators and how they help tourists appreciate foreign cultures. It also shows how tourism experiences are strategically crafted by mediators. The mediation process is complex, and the various products are mediated differently. A number of different products are investigated, including destination brand identities, ""living"" cultures and everyday life, art and history. "
Author : Geneviève Zarate
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9287152594
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Cultural Mediation in Language Learning and Teaching written by Geneviève Zarate and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project attempts to tackle several challenges: - to experience the variety of different teaching cultures as a source of innovation rather than as an obstacle; - to adopt a pluridisciplinary approach by introducing references taken from the social sciences in order to develop reflection on the role of languages in social cohesion; - to try and provide answers to a question hitherto rarely raised in the didactics of languages and cultures, namely the place of cultural mediation itself. [CoE website]
Author : Bruce E. Barnes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761838384
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Culture, Conflict, and Mediation in the Asian Pacific written by Bruce E. Barnes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Author : François Debrix
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816640744
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Rituals of Mediation written by François Debrix and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely consideration of the meaning of transnational cultural interactions today. In an era of increasing globalization, the cultural and the international have borders as permeable as most nations'--and an understanding of one requires making sense of the other. Foregrounding the role of mediation--understood here as a site of representation, transformation, and pluralization--the authors engage two specific questions: How might we make theoretical and practical sense of transnational cultural interactions? And how are we to understand the ways in which the sites of mediation represent, transform, and remediate internationals? Accordingly, the authors consider international issues like security, development, political activism, and the war against terrorism through the lens of cultural practices such as traveling through airports, exhibiting art and photography, logging on to the Internet, and spinning news stories.
Author : Helena Alves
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668668906
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (686 download)
Download or read book Mediation as a Tool for Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Negotiations. A Comparison between Germany, Brazil, France and Sweden written by Helena Alves and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: 1,7, , course: Diplomarbeit, language: English, abstract: The aim of this work is to investigate the role of culture in a cross-cultural business encounter and to investigate the potential of mediation for these specific situations. The results should help to reach an understanding and improvement of communication in these situations - knowing that communication is one of the most vital manager’s tasks that takes up between 50 and 90 % of a manager’s time. Therefore communication that is not disturbed by cultural misunderstandings is essential for the success of any cross-cultural enterprise. The first main part examines if there are any differences in the way that these nations approach business - especially negotiations – and if so, the disclosed differences will be laid down and explained with an outlook on the cultural roots of these specific issues of behaviour. The main focus rests on Germany as a starting point with which the other cultures will be compared. Different approaches regarding research findings in the cultural field will be presented and applied to the particularities found in the named nations. In the second main part mediation will be scrutinized as a possible tool to facilitate cross-cultural negotiations. It will be questioned whether mediation may be helpful in a cross-cultural context, which aspects of mediation can help to overcome the special barrier culture in negotiations, working methods and which factors may have to be considered with special care in such a situation. This will be done with a focus on the cultural dimensions presented in the first part. In a next step, cultural training will be briefly presented as a human resources tool that may help to prepare for a temporary stay abroad and for cooperation with members of other cultures. For this different training methods will be explained. In a conclusion the findings of this paper will be summarised, specific advice for negotiations with the cultures under scrutiny will be given and a general checklist for cross-cultural negotiations will be presented. It must be stressed that this paper will not be an empirical work, but concentrate on the analysis of the existing literature and partly resort to interviews carried out by the author. In total this work should be an inducement for further research on the influence of culture on negotiations within Europe and the advantages that mediation can offer for cross-cultural encounters.
Author : Maria Stathopoulou
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783094133
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Cross-Language Mediation in Foreign Language Teaching and Testing written by Maria Stathopoulou and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to the growing field of foreign language teaching and testing by shedding light on mediation between languages. Stathopoulou offers an empirically-grounded definition of mediation as a form of translanguaging and offers tools and methods for further research in multilingual testing. The book explores what cross-language mediation entails, what processes and strategies are involved, and the challenges often faced by mediators. As well as stressing the importance of administering tests which favour cross-language mediation practices, the author encourages the implementation of language programmes which promote the mingling-of-languages idea and target the development of language learners’ effective translanguaging practices. Researchers studying translanguaging, multilingualism, multilingual testing and the use of mother tongue in the foreign language classroom will all find this book of interest.
Author : Claude H Mayer
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838255313
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Intercultural Mediation & Conflict Resolution written by Claude H Mayer and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you like to acquire intercultural competencies that would open new perspectives to you, and new options for action, and new options, especially in negotiations, and situations of conflict? This book gives information on procedures and processes of mediation in Western and intercultural contexts, and explains them. Readers come in contact with what is special about mediation, and working with conflict, in interaction between Germans and Africans. Finally, the authors place at readers’ disposal introductory training methods, necessary for all who wish to work responsibly in intercultural contexts.The book’s “constructivist” approach affords the perception of new aspects and perspectives of German-African realities, and of the current discussion on intercultural conflict-management.
Author : Dominic Busch
Publisher : Studien zur interkulturellen Mediation
ISBN 13 : 9783631596449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)
Download or read book International and Regional Perspectives on Cross-cultural Mediation written by Dominic Busch and published by Studien zur interkulturellen Mediation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intercultural and cross-cultural mediation in the Western world has emerged as an object of research that has attracted a growing attention over the past thirty years. Meanwhile, static and essentialist notions of culture in communication have been challenged by dynamic and constructivist approaches taking culture as a flux that is changing permanently. The contributions in this book adopt these tendencies to cross-cultural mediation research: They center around the question if and in what ways people from different cultural groups have constructed their own notions of how conflict mediation in cross-cultural settings should be dealt with in particular. In other words: Are there different ways of handling cross-cultural conflict that may be termed as culture-specific? The contributions in this volume reveal some insights to the high complexity of this question.
Author : Arthur W. Rovine
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004305599
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers 2014 written by Arthur W. Rovine and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2014 volume of Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers is a collection of important works in the field written by the speakers at the 2014 Fordham Law School Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation, held in New York.
Author : Jacob Bercovitch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136827137
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Theory and Practice of International Mediation written by Jacob Bercovitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together some of the most significant papers on international conflict mediation by Professor Jacob Bercovitch, one of the leading scholars in the field. It has become common practice to note that mediation has been, and remains, one of the most important structures of dealing with and resolving social conflicts. Irrespective of the level of political or social organization, of their location in time and space, and of the political sophistication of a society, mediation has always been there to help deal with conflicts. As a method of conflict management, the practice of settling disputes through intermediaries has had a rich history in all cultures, both Western and non-Western. In some non-Western countries (especially in the Middle East and China) mediation has been the most important and enduring structure of conflict resolution. Jacob Bercovitch has been at the forefront of developments in international conflict mediation for more than 25 years, and is generally recognized as one of the most important scholars in the field. His theoretical and empirical analyses have come to define the parameters in the study of mediation. This volume will help scholars and practitioners trace the history of the field, its position today and its future and will be of much interest to all students of mediation, negotiation, conflict management, international security and international relations in general.
Author : Jörg Dürrschmidt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319936565
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Globalized Eating Cultures written by Jörg Dürrschmidt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume explores the link between local and regional eating cultures and their mediatization via transnational TV cooking shows, glocal food advertising and social media transfer of recipes. Pursuing a global and interdisciplinary approach, it brings together research conducted in Latin America, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe, from leading scholars in sociology and political science, media and cultural studies, as well as anthropology. Drawing on this rich case study material facilitates a revealing and engaging analysis of the connection between the meta-concepts of globalization and mediatization. Across fifteen chapters its authors provide fresh insights into the different impact that food and eating cultures can have on the everyday mediation of ethnicity and class as well as local, regional and transnational modes of belonging in a media rich global environment. This exciting addition to the food studies literature will appeal in particular to students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, media and cultural studies.
