Routledge The Discourse of Ethics and Equity in Intercultural Communication

This book examines the notions of ethics and equity in relation to language and communication in intercultural relations. Although these notions are often discussed, they are not always addressed with regard to specifi c subjects. Much intercultural discourse and dialogue in recent times has been coloured by the clash of civilizations (as described by Samuel Huntington), terrorist attacks such as 9/11, and the indelible effects which these events have had on dealings between different peoples, cultures and religions. This book discusses ethics and equity with regard to marginalized and privileged minorities, victims of abuse and of confl ict, researchers and practitioners, and language learners and speaker/users. It opens up spaces for a critical discourse of ethics and equity in language and intercultural communication as ‘new’ knowledge. This book was originally published as a special issue of Language and Intercultural Communication. About the Author Shanta Nair-Venugopal was most recently guest scholar at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and previously Principal Fellow at the Institute of Occidental Studies and Professor in the School of Language Studies and Linguistics at the National University of Malaysia. Her publications include The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East (2012), and most recently 'Issues of language and competence in intercultural business contexts’, Language and Intercultural Communication (2015).