IV: Intercultural Discourse Sites
The chapters in Part IV provide analyses of different ways that researchers perform Intercultural Discourse and Communication (IDC) work. It is emphatically not comprehensive, because such a goal is impractical (there are an almost infinite number of combinations of IDC interactions), but rather provides suggestions of what can be done in such analyses. It covers a diversity of cultures and cultural situations. Some analyses are explicitly comparative, but none are comparisons in a simple sense, and therefore showcase some difficult issues in IDC. Although much – if not most – work in IDC has been on English around the world, these chapters include some more diverse situations and perspectives, and provide examples of how researchers might work in these kinds of situations. These chapters are therefore not “templates” for doing IDC research but rather possibilities, bits and pieces of which might be modeled and combined in other work.
