Cultural/Language Issues (Bibliography)

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Business

Ferraro, Gary P. The Cultural Dimension of International Business. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Randlesome, Collin et al. Business Cultures in Europe. Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1990.

Tromenaars, Fons. Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business. London, UK: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 1998.

Wiseman, Richard and Robert Shuter (ed.). Communicating in Multinational Organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994.

Communication

Axtell, Roger E. Do’s and Taboos of Using English Around the World. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.

Axtell, Roger E. The Do’s and Taboos of Body Language Around the World. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

Hagar, Peter J. and H.J. Scheiber (eds.). Managing Global Communication in Science and Technology. Wiley Interscience, 2000.

Martin, Jeanette S. and Lillian H. Chaney. Global Business Etiquette: A Guide to International Communication and Customs. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008.

Niemeier, Susanne, Charles P. Campbell, and Rene Dirven (eds.). The Cultural Context in Business Communication. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing, 1998.

Reynolds, Sana and Deborah Valentine. Guide to Cross-Cultural Communication. Prentice Hall, 2003.

Scollon, Ron and Suzanne Wong Scollon. Intercultural Communication. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1995.

Ting-Toomey, Stella (ed.). The Challenge of Facework: Cross-Cultural and Interpersonal Issues. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Victor, David A. International Business Communication. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1992.

General

Adams, Michael Vannoy. The Multicultural Imagination: “Race”, Color, and the Unconscious. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996.

Bennett, Milton J. (ed.). Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication: Selected Readings. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1998.

Berlitz, Charles. Native Tongues. New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1982.

Bray, Francesca, and Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann. Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft. Boston, MA: Brill, 2007.

Esposito, Anna. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviors: COST Action 2102 International Workshop , Vietri sul Mare, Italy, March 29-31, 2007: Revised Selected and Invited Papers. New York, NY: Springer, 2007.

Garzone, G., and Cornelia Ilie. The Use of English in Institutional and Business Settings: An Intercultural Perspective. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2007.

Gudykunst, William. Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Communication. Sage Publications, 2003.

Hofstede, Geert. Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. 1997.

Kachru, Braj B. (ed.). The Other Tongue: English across Cultures, 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Katzner, Kenneth. The Languages of the World. New York, NY: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1995.

Norales, Francisca O. Cross-Cultural Communication: Concepts, Cases and Challenges. Cambria Press, 2006.

Scott, J. Blake, Bernadette Longo, and Katherine V. Wills. Critical Power Tools: Technical Communication and Cultural Studies. New York, NY: State University of New York, 2007.

Shweder, Richard A. Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Stewart, Edward C. and Milton J. Bennett. American Cultural Patterns: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Revised Edition. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1991.

Storti, Craig. Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters with Cultural Difference. Yarmouth: Intercultural Press, 1994.

Ting-Toomey, Stella. Communicating Across Cultures. New York, NY: Guilford Press, 1999.

Management

Adler, Nancy J. International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior, 5th ed. Thomson Learning, 2007.

Deresky, Helen. International Management: Managing Across Borders and Cultures. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1994.

Mole, John. Mind Your Manners: Managing Business Cultures in Europe. London, UK: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 1996.

Moran, Robert T. and Philip R. Harris. Managing Cultural Differences. Gulf Publishing Company, 1996.

Style/Usage

Jones, Scott, et al. Digital Guide to Developing International User Information. Maynard, MA: Digital Press, 1992.

Kohl, John R. The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market. Cary, NC: SAS Institute, 2008.

Todd, Loreto, and Ian Hancock. International English Usage. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1987.

Weiss, Edmond H. The Elements of International English Style: A Guide to Writing Correspondence, Reports, Technical Documents and Internet Pages for a Global Audience. M.E. Sharp, 2005.

Translation/Localization

Budik, Sanford, and Wolfgang Iser. The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between. Stanford, CT: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Dingwaney, Anuradha and Carol Maier (ed.). Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.

Esselink, Bert. A Practical Guide to Localization, revised. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing, 2003.

Hatim, Basil and Ian Mason. The Translator as Communicator. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997.

Wilks, Yorick. Machine Translation: Its Scope and Limits. New York, NY: Springer, 2008.

Williams, Jeff. The Guide to Translation and Localization: Preparing for the Global Marketplace, 5th ed. Lingo Systems, 2004.

User Interfaces

del Galdo, Elisa, and Jakob Nielsen (eds.). International User Interfaces. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Nielsen, Jakob (ed.). Designing User Interfaces for International Use. New York, NY: Elsevier Science Publisher, 1990.

Web

Singh, Nitish and Arun Pereira. The Culturally Customized Web Site: Customizing Web Sites for the Global Marketplace. Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005.

Writing

de Vries, Mary. Internationally Yours: Writing and Communicating Successfully in Today’s Global Marketplace. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Hoft, Nancy L. International Technical Communication: How to Export Information about High Technology. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.

Huckin, Thomas N. and Leslie A. Olsen. Technical and Professional Communication for Nonnative Speakers of English, 2nd ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Severino, Carol, Juan C. Guerra, and Johnnella E. Butler (ed.). Writing in Multicultural Settings. New York, NY: MLA, 1997.

Usunier, Jean-Claude. International Marketing: A Cultural Approach. New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 1993.

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