Introduction SECTION A: INTRODUCTION - DEFINING CONCEPTS THEME 1 IDENTITYUnit A1.1 People like meUnit A1.2 Artefacts of cultureUnit A1.3 Identity card THEME 2 ADDRESSING THE OTHER Unit A2.1 Communication is about not presumingUnit A2.2 Cultural dealingUnit A2.3 Power and discourse THEME 3 REPRESENTATIONUnit A3.1 Cultural refugeeUnit A3.2 Complex imagesUnit A3.3 The paradoxes of institutional lifeUnit A3.4 Disciplines for intercultural communication SECTION B: EXTENSION INTRODUCTIONUnit B0.1 'Culture' and 'community' in everyday discourseUnit B0.2 'Culture' - Definitions and perspectivesUnit B0.3 Current and previous approaches to the study of intercultural communication THEME 1 IDENTITYUnit B1.1 Identity as a personal projectUnit B1.2 Globalization, cosmopolitanism and identityUnit B1.3 Discourse and identityUnit B1.4 Discourse, identity and intercultural communicationUnit B1.5 Identity and language learning THEME 2 OTHERINGUnit B2.1 Othering - Focus on JapanUnit B2.2 Images of the OtherUnit B2.3 Power and the Other in intercultural communicationUnit B2.4 Power and the Other in educational contextsUnit B2.5 The Other and the tourist gaze THEME 3 REPRESENTATIONUnit B3.1 The representation of identity: Personality and its social constructionUnit B3.2 Social constructionism and social representationsUnit B3.3 Representation in the media - The case of 'asylum seekers'Unit B3.4 Representation of identity onlineUnit B3.5 Cultural constructs in business and intercultural training Unit B3.6 Challenging cultural constructs in intercultural training and ducation SECTION C: EXPLORATION THEME 1 IDENTITYUnit C1.1 The story of the selfUnit C1.2 Becoming the self by defining the OtherUnit C1.3 Undoing cultural fundamentalismUnit C1.4 Investigating discourse and powerUnit C1.5 Locality and transcendence of locality: Factors in identity formation THEME 2 OTHERINGUnit C2.1 OtheringUnit C2.2 'As you speak, therefore you are'Unit C2.3 The 'located' selfUnit C2.4 Integrating the OtherUnit C2.5 'Are you what you are supposed to be?' THEME 3 REPRESENTATIONUnit C3.1 'You are, therefore I am'Unit C3.2 'Schemas': fixed or flexible?Unit C3.3 'What's underneath?' Unit C3.4 'Manufacturing the self'Unit C3.5 'Minimal clues lead to big conclusions'

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