CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Article Title

Intercultural Communication and Speech Style

Authors

Fee-Alexandra Haase, Hannover

Abstract

In her article, "Intercultural Communication and Speech Style," Fee-Alexandra Haase discusses intercultural communication as a concept for the production and analysis of speeches and written texts. Starting with a theoretical and historical perspective, Haase exemplifies selected intercultural patterns found in different cultures. Further, based on definitions of style in rhetoric from different cultural backgrounds from the ancient Greek culture up to modern approaches of rhetoricians, Haase proposes a concept for the analysis of texts employing aspects of rhetoric as an intercultural concept. Haase locates in her concept methods of composition used for the analysis of texts and spoken words within the tradition of style books and scholarly literature thus providing evidence of the development of style conceptualization. Finally, Haase proposes that the analysis of the main qualities of utterance (speech or text) others or we ourselves use can help as an adjustment within the intercultural conditions of discourse.

Recommended Citation

Haase, Fee-Alexandra. "Intercultural Communication and Speech Style." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 7.3 (2005): <http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1268>

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