A Practice-Based Approach for Intercultural Communication: Towards an Epistemological Integration

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Abstract

This article introduces a practice-based approach to intercultural communication (IC), proposing an epistemological integration that foregrounds how interculturality is enacted through socially and materially situated practices. Rather than framing IC within structural (macro) or individualist (micro) paradigms, the article focuses on the performative (meso) dimensions through which people “do” IC in context. Key concepts such as practical intelligibility, teleoaffectivity, bundles of practice are introduced to offer a generative vocabulary for analysing how IC is negotiated, sustained, and sometimes opposed. The article concludes with methodological suggestions for studying IC qua practices.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)368-384
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of Intercultural Communication Research
Volume54
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025

Keywords

  • Practice theory
  • intercultural communication
  • materiality
  • meso approach
  • social action

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