This Study Sheds Light On The Problem Of Communicative Inequality, Neglected Both By Linguists And Communication Scholars, Among Speakers Of Different Languages. It Provides A Four-step Critical Theory Analysis Of Language-based Inequality And Distortion Between Speakers Of A Few Dominant Languages, Especially English, And Speakers Of Minority Languages In The Context Of International And Intercultural Communication. Based On A Theoretical Framework Of Distorted Communication Developed By J. Habermas And C. Müller, The Analysis Focuses On A Critical Description, Definition, And Interpretation Of Distorted Intercultural Communication , And Exposes The Ideology That Legitimates Linguistic Inequality And Distortion In Communication.--page [4] Of Cover. 1. Critical Theory Approach To Language Inequalities -- 2. Language Inequality In Distorted Intercultural Communication -- 3. The Ideology Of Civilization And Western Domination -- 4. Conclusion. Yukio Tsuda. Originally Presented As The Author's Thesis (ph. D.)--southern Illinois University. Bibliography: P. [91]-97.

Language Inequality and Distortion in Intercultural Communication: A Critical Theory Approach (Pragmatics and Beyond VII:7)

Tsuda, Yukio.

Yukio Tsuda

J. Benjamins Pub. Co.; Benjamins Publishing Company, John

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.

United States, United States of America

Pragmatics and beyond, Amsterdam, 1986

August 1987

Bibliography: p. [91]-97.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University.

x, 97 p. ; 22 cm
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University
Bibliography: p. [91]-97

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