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1 - What Is Culture?

from Part I - Introducing Intercultural Communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2020

By
Werner Delanoy
Edited by
Guido Rings  and
Sebastian Rasinger
Guido Rings
Affiliation:
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Sebastian Rasinger
Affiliation:
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
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Summary

Werner Delanoy explores different definitions of culture both in their historical context and with regard to future developments in intercultural communication. As an advocate of a dialogic approach, the author argues in favour of non-essentialist and power-critical perspectives in line with a (post-)humanistic and cosmopolitan agenda.

Keywords

intercultural communicationculturedialoguenon-essentialismcosmopolitanismposthumanism
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The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication , pp. 17 - 34
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • What Is Culture?
  • Edited by Guido Rings, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Sebastian Rasinger, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication
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  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication
  • Online publication: 18 February 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108555067.003
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