Suggested Readings

We encourage our current and incoming MA students to explore the following both in the context of coursework and independently!

Anderson, Benedict. “Imagined Communities.” In Nations and Nationalism: A Reader. Eds. Spencer, Philip and Wollman Howard. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2005.

Appadurai, Arjun. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Modernity at Large: The Cultural Dimensions of Globalization . U of Minnesota P, 1996. 27-47.

Bauer, Laurie and Peter Trudgill, eds. Language Myths. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1993. “The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed” and “The Production of Belief: Contribution to an Economy of Symbolic Goods.” The Field of Cultural Production. NY: Columbia UP. 29-73-112.

Bourdieu, Pierre, and Jean-Claude Passeron. “Foundations of a Theory of Symbolic Violence.” Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture. Trans. Richard Nice. 2nd edition. London: Sage, 1998. viii-68.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Cameron, Deborah. Working with Spoken Discourse. London: Sage, 2001.

Chang, Hui-Ching, Rich Holt, and Lina Luo. “Representing East Asians in Intercultural Communication Textbooks: A Select Review.” The Review of Communication, 6.4
(2006): 312-328.

Chuang, R. “A Postmodern Critique of Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication Research,” In Ferment in the Intercultural Field: Axiology/Value/Praxis. Eds. William Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen. Sage Publications, 2003. 24-53.

Cutting, Joan. Pragmatics and Discourse. New York: Routledge, 2002.

De Beauvoir, Simone. “Introduction.” The Second Sex. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Dyer, Richard. “Gays in Films.” Jump Cut, 18 (1978): 15-16.

Fanon, Frantz. “Concerning Violence.” Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Constance Farrington. New York: Grove, 1968. 29-83.

Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. “Panopticism.“ NY: Vintage Books, 1995. 195-228.

Gudykunst, William (Ed.). Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2003.

Hall, Edward T. Beyond Culture. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1976, 1981.

Hoffman, Katherine. We Share Walls: Language, Land and Gender in Berber Moroco. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

Holliday, Adrian.  Intercultural Communication & Ideology.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2011.

Holmes, Janet and Miriam Meyerhoff. “The Community of Practice: Theories and methodologies in language and gender research.” Language in Society 28 (1999): 173- 183.

Huntington, Samuel. “A Clash of Civilizations.” Foreign Affairs: 72.3 (1993): 22-49.

Jandt, Fred E., and Dolores V. Tanno, “Decoding Domination, Encoding Self-Determination: Intercultural Communication Research Processes. The Howard Journal of Communication 12 (2001): 119-135.

Johnstone, B. Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

Landis, Dan, Janet M. Bennett, and Milton J. Bennett. Handbook of Intercultural Training. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2003.

Madison, D. Soyini. Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics and Performance. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2005.

Mahar, et al. “The Basic Theoretical Position.” In Richard Harker, et al, An Introduction to the Work of Pierre Bourdieu. New York: St. Martins, 1990.

Matsumoto, David, and Seung Hee Yoo. “Toward a New Generation of Cross-Cultural Research.” Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1.3 (2006): 234-250.

Martin, Judith N., and Thomas K. Nakayama. “Thinking Dialectically about Culture and Communication.” In Asante, Miike, Yin (Eds.), The Global Intercultural Communication Reader, NY: Routledge, 2008. 73-91.

Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. The Communist Manifesto. The Haymarket Books edition. (sections I, II, IV)

Medina, Adrian, and John Sinnigen. “Intercultural Competencies versus Interculturality in Latin America.” In The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Competence. Ed. Darla Deardorff. Durham, N.C: Duke UP, 2009.

Mendoza-Denton, Norma. Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth Gangs. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.

Moon, Dreama. “Concepts of ‘Culture’: Implications for Intercultural Communication Research.” Communication Quarterly, 44.1 (1996): 70-84.

Morgan, M. “Speech Community.” In A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Ed. : A. Duranti. Oxford: Blackwell. 2004. 3-22.

Nakayama, Thomas K., and Rona Tamiko Halualani.  The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication.  Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2013

Provencher, Denis M. “‘I Dislike Politicians and Homosexuals’: Language and Homophobia in Contemporary France.” Gender and Language 4.2 (2010): 287-321.

Provencher, Denis M. “One in Ten: Teaching Tolerance for (Class) Difference, Ambiguity, and Queerness in the Intercultural Classroom.” In Resilience: Queer Professors from the Working Class. Eds. Richard Johnson III and Kenneth Oldfield. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008: 63-81.

Provencher, Denis M. and William L. Leap. Language Matters. Special Double Issue of The Journal of Homosexuality 58 Vols 6-7 (2011).

Provencher, Denis M. Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.

Provencher, Denis M.  Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations.  Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016.

Renan, Ernest. “What is a Nation?” http://www.nationalismproject.org/what/renan.htm.

Richardson, Diane, and Steven Seidman. Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies. London: Sage, 2002.

Said, Edward. Orientalism. Pantheon Books, 2002.

Saville-Troike, M. The Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction. (3rd Edition). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.

Sinnigen John, and Adriana Medina. “Modern Language Class Struggles.” Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. 33 (2002.): 50-56.

Sinnigen, John. 2000. “Foreign Language Education, Intercultural Communication, and the Conditions of Globalization.” Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. 31 (2000): 21-26.

Smith, Anthony D. “Foundations of Ethnic Community,” and “The Formation of Nations.” The Ethnic Origins of Nations. London: Basil Blackwell, 1986. 21-46, 129-152.

Stolle-McAllister, John. “Constructing interculturality in Ecuador: Challenges to the humanities.” International Journal of the Humanities, 5.6 (2007): 163–169.

Tomaselli, Keyan G. “Misappropriating Discourses – Intercultural Communication Theory in South Africa, 1980-1995.” Communal/Plural 7.2 (1999): 137-158.

Tubino Fidel. “Intercultural Practices in Latin American Nation States.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 34.5 (2013): 604-619. Trans. John H. Sinnigen.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. “Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System.” In Global Culture. Ed. Mike Featherstone. London: Sage, 1990. 31-55.

Woolard, K.A. “Codeswitching.” In A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Ed. A. Duranti. Oxford: Blackwell. 2004. 73-94.