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3 - Rethinking Intercultural Competence

from Part I - Introducing Intercultural Communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2020

By
Jürgen Bolten
Edited by
Guido Rings  and
Sebastian Rasinger
Guido Rings
Affiliation:
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Sebastian Rasinger
Affiliation:
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
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Summary

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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intercultural communicationintercultural competencesocial mobilitycultural diversitymicro-cultural diversityaction competence
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The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication , pp. 56 - 67
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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