The Discourse of Ethics and Equity in Intercultural Communication

Shanta Nair-Venugopal was most recently guest scholar at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and previously Principal Fellow at the Institute of Occidental Studies and Professor in the School of Language Studies and Linguistics at the National University of Malaysia. Her publications include The Gaze of the West and Framings of the East (2012), and most recently 'Issues of language and competence in intercultural business contexts’, Language and Intercultural Communication (2015).

Introduction: the discourse of ethics and equity 1. Intercultural ethics: questions of methods in language and intercultural communication 2. The uses of oral history in Cyprus: ethics, memory and identity 3. Beyond the reach of ethics and equity? Depersonalisation and dehumanisation in foreign domestic helper narratives 4. Issues of language choice, ethics and equity: Japanese retirees living in Malaysia as their second home 5. The in-depth interview as a research tool for investigating the online intercultural communication of Asian Internet users in relation to ethics in intercultural research 6. Are you an ELF? The relevance of ELF as an equitable social category in online intercultural communication