跨文化交流对于理解当今世界和参与明天世界至关重要。在当今世界，大多数人从事的工作通常跨越语言和文化障碍，您将毕业，准备担任各种关键职务。这可能发生在巨大的全球翻译行业增长中，或者可能在其他许多对跨文化交流的理解至关重要的专业中。您将开发一种广泛的方法来研究语言和跨文化交流，将其作为一种文化资源和一种文化实践。您将了解到代表当今全球网络的新媒体和移动技术如何影响交流。<br>您将受到领先学者的教导，并在友好和令人兴奋的环境中享受高水平的联系时间和个人学术支持，并为非英语母语人士提供专门支持。
Intercultural communication is crucial to comprehending the world of today and participating in the world of tomorrow. Globalisation has led to ever-greater centrality of knowledge and information. Different linguistic communities have ever-increasing contact – through migration, tourism, education, and information and media flows yet linguistic and cultural barriers persist. As language and intercultural exchanges become more frequent and diverse – and the media that carry these exchanges proliferate – it is even more crucial to understand intercultural communication and how to use and promote it. This course will equip you to do just that. You'll explore how the linguistic forms and patterns within a language give expression to that culture's worldview, sociocultural norms and values. And you'll approach linguistic communication as a cultural practice, used to both create and sustain our sense of personal, cultural and national identity. You'll use a variety of different analytic approaches, ranging from discourse analysis and anthropological linguistics to semiotics and cross-cultural pragmatics.