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Department of International Culture and Communication Studies

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“We are continuously reminded that internationalization challenges economic conditions as well as market relations. However, we seem to forget that the overarching challenge of internationalization is in fact its challenge to human relations. More than ever people all over the world are interacting across cultures and subcultures, thus making it all the more important for us to understand and respect each other and our cultural backgrounds. If Danish companies and organizations are to make it in a globalized world, they must to know how to adjust their communication to norms and values different from their own. Through its research and teaching activities, the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies is committed to providing students, businesses and society with compelling insights and useful answers to these fundamental aspects of internationalization.
Anette Villemoes
Head of department



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Language, Cognition and Identity. Extensions of the endocentric/exocentric language typology, edited by Emanuela Cresti & Iørn Korzen (Firenze University Press)
The typological distinction between the so-called endocentric and exocentric languages was originally launched by the CBS-based research group “TypoLex”: Michael Herslund, Irene Baron, Hanne Korzen, Iørn Korzen, Viktor Smith (all IKK), Lita Lundquist (DBP) and Henrik Høeg Müller (ISV). An endocentric language is a language whose verbs are lexically precise and concrete, whereas its nouns are abstract and vague. An exocentric language has lexically precise and concrete nouns and abstract verbs. The Germanic languages prove to be endocentric and the Romance languages exocentric. The lexical differences entail differences at other levels as well, linguistic as well as extra-linguistic. This multilingual volume contains a selection of papers presented at the two day Italian-Danish linguistic seminar, Lingua, cognizione e identità: estensioni della tipologia delle lingue endo- ed esocentriche, organised by the two editors and held at the Italian Department of the University of Florence on the 22nd and 23rd of September 2009.
The papers challenge the endo-/exocentric approach at various levels (lexicon, grammar, discourse structure, language infrastructures, as well as socio cultural and psychological reflections) with examples from Romance languages (Italian and French) and Germanic languages (English, German and Danish). The authors are the members of the TypoLex group and an equivalent number of Italian scholars.
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Linguistic Supertypes. A Cognitive-Semiotic Theory of Human Communication: New publication in 2011 by Per Durst-Andersen (De Gruyter Muton)
The book offers a completely new view of language and of languages such as Russian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Georgian, Danish and English by dividing them into three supertypes on the basis of a step-by-step examination of their relationship to perception and cognition, their representation of situations and their use in oral and written discourse. The dynamic processing of visual stimuli involves three stages: input (experience), intake (understanding) and outcome (a combination). The very choice among three modalities of existence gives a language a certain voice -- either the voice of reality based on situations, the speaker's voice involving experiences or the hearer's voice grounded on information. This makes grammar a prime index: all symbols are static and impotent and need a vehicle, i.e. grammar, which can bring them to the proper point of reference. Language is shown to be a living organism with a determinant category, aspect, mood or tense, which conquers territory from other potential competitors trying to create harmony between verbal and nominal categories. It is demonstrated that the communication processes are different in the three supertypes, although in all three cases the speaker must choose between a public and a private voice before the grammar is put into use.
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