1994- ‘Perspectives on intercultural communication: A critical reading’ (original) (raw)

The 4th IPrA conference in Kobe last year shaped its theme, 'Cognition and communication in an intercultura! context', around a number of panels which provided for unified forums of discussion. But in the margins of these arranged sessions, there were a number of individual speakers addressing intercultural issues, who, in attending each others' presentations, came to see the need to establish a post-factum 'panel'. Indeed, exchanging impressions in the corridors of Shoin Women's University about how clearly they saw their presentations overlap in terms of a preferred approach to intercultural communication, they concluded that a valuable opportunity had been missed to voice these overlappings in a panel session. At the same time, however, the opportunify presented itself to continue the cross-fertilization of ideas, extending it to other like-minded Kobe lecturers who came to join the discussion. The present volume reports on the outcomes of these reflections. As a 'critical' reading of the Kobe lectures brought together in the present