Rethinking Intercultural Competence
Article
Author(s):
Jürgen Bolten
Year: 2020
Bolten, J. (2020) Rethinking Intercultural Competence. In G. Rings and S. Rasinger (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics), pp. 56–67.
Keywords: intercultural communication, intercultural competence, social mobility, cultural diversity, micro-cultural diversity, action competenceLanguage(s): English
Abstract:
Jürgen Bolten explores intercultural competence as a form of general ‘action competence’, which is implemented in intercultural, i.e. uncertain contexts. In the context of increasing social mobility at nearly all levels and in most professions, intercultural competence is highlighted as more relevant today than ever before. However, that relevance correlates with a ‘rethinking’ of the concept, within which intercultural competence research has to expand its own horizons by integrating the hitherto still dominant focus on national cultural diversity into the much more complex field of micro-cultural diversity.
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